Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 2026/4

Spotlight

  • Julia Lu, Ru-Woei Foong: Minority creditors beware: the LME may not be a restructuring under European corporate CDS (219)

Features

  • Jonathan Haines: Can an English limited partnership create a floating charge? (223)
  • Paul MacMahon: The effect of restrictions on assignment on attempts to grant charges (227)
  • Helen Pugh: “Not your key, not your coin”: the private key and ownership (230)
  • Jason Ewart, Thomas McGowan: Control as economics: the new preferred equity playbook (232)
  • Alexandra Kosta-Foti: Primary and secondary rights in the Quincecare litigation arena: another dimension of the debt versus damages debate (235)
  • Lee Federman, Danté Adams: The lender’s reset right: change of control in modern exits (239)
  • Nigel Jones, Thomas Bell: Succumbing to wrongful payment demands: what can borrowers do? (242)
  • Nicholas U Jin, William Cooke: Tracing through the Ether: legal and technical barriers to cryptoasset recovery (245)
  • Kate Stephenson, Mallika Abidi: When shareholders sue: a comparative view of the ranking of shareholder claims in insolvency (250)
  • Lisa Lee Lewis, Sam Krips: Overseas firms carrying out cryptoasset business in the UK: what you need to know (254)
  • Teen Jui Chow, Alex Forzani: Providence and party intention: the Supreme Court on industry-wide standard forms (258)
  • Dominic Gregory: Sustainable finance: transparency and its misapprehension (262)
  • Georgios Pantelias: The EU’s emerging accountability regime: borrowing the SMCR without its foundations (265)

In Practice

  • Ana Biloglav, Paola Bahari: NAV facilities in 2026: structuring, governance and market practice considerations for sponsors (269)
  • Robert Brittain: Redressing the balance in competition class actions (272)
  • Aditi Sanyal, Jennifer Hanna: A new era in the UAE: the significance of removing gambling provisions under the 2025 Civil Code (273)
  • Cristiano Borgogna: Stablecoins: what could hinder their rise? (274)

Regulars

  • Book Review by Ross Cranston (276)
  • Case Analysis by 3 Verulam Buildings (277)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (281)
  • Market Movements by CMS (285)
  • Deals (287)
  • Legal Ease by Lexis+® UK (288)
  • International Briefing from Canada (290)

Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 2026/1

Spotlight

  • Bart Garré, Richard Hay, Sophia Le Vesconte: The role of financial market infrastructure for stablecoins (3)

Features

  • Matthew Parker: Are claims worth over £3bn out of time under the FCA’s proposed motor finance redress scheme? (8)
  • The City of London Law Society Financial Law Committee: The face value requirement for deeds in s 1(2)(a) of the Law of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1989 (13)
  • Gerard McMeel: How long is your arm? The Motor Finance litigation and the impact on conduct of business (18)
  • Adam Rosenthal, Edward Blakeney: Should secured lenders be worried about the remediation provisions of the Building Safety Act 2022? (21)
  • Alex Shopov, Andy Vickery, George Gooderham: Progress through simplification: an opportunity to modernise the UK securitisation special purpose entity framework (24)
  • Luke Broadway: Agency and declarations of trust (27)
  • Hannah Yee-Fen Lim: Legal liability of deploying artificial intelligence in banking and finance (31)
  • Sherri Snelson, Alice Wight, Lavanya Raghavan, Emma Russell: NAV and Holdco back leverage facilities: balancing stakeholder interests to maximise value creation (33)
  • Benedikt Bartylla: How can stablecoins move between regulatory systems? (36)
  • Ian Bergson: Tackling fraud: a duty of inquiry or a duty if on inquiry? (39)
  • Jacqueline Cook: Planes, trains and … tractors: a new route to financing high value equipment in the mining, agriculture and construction sectors (43)
  • Rosa M Lastra, Daniele D’ Alvia: Simplification, not deregulation: reframing financial regulation in the UK and the EU (47)
  • Stephen Moi, Tessa Agar: Fallout: the current cycle of post-M&A disputes (54)
  • Lisa Lee Lewis, Sam Krips: Unlocking the UK banking market: to buy or not to buy (57)

In Practice

  • Keith M Aurzada, Kathleen Garrett, Emily Chang: Cryptocurrency custody insolvency: why it remains so complex (59)
  • Sara Evans: A step-up in regulatory support for UK fund tokenisation (61)
  • Kelesi Blundell: Strong and simple: a new capital regime for small UK banks and building societies (63)

Regulars

  • Case Analysis by 3 Verulam Buildings: Houssein & ors v London Credit Ltd & anor and Catbalogan Holdings S.Á.R.L v Unik Bond S.A. (64)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (67)
  • Market Movements by CMS (71)
  • Deals (73)
  • Legal Ease by by Lexis+® UK: LMEs and formal insolvency (74)
  • International Briefing from India (75)