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)
Tetyana Nesterchuk: Unlocking the use of Russian Central Bank assets: is collateralisation the answer? (295)
Features
Louise Gullifer: Non-notification receivables financing: can the assignor sue without joining the assignee? (299)
Jeremy Duffy, Tom Falkus, Richard Lloyd, Sherri Snelson, Samantha Richardson: Fund finance and sustainability: new guidance on the application of the SLLPs (303)
Christopher Boardman, Tom Beasley: Pitfalls with board resolutions authorising loan facilities (306)
Daniel Lightman, Reuben Comiskey: The rule in Clayton’s Case: its application in non-banking relationships (309)
Brie Stevens-Hoare: Delivering valid notices of assignment: s 136 in 2024 (312)
Matthew Parker: Does the restoration of Crown preference mean that guarantors can get off the hook? (316)
Emmar Radmore, Natalie Caple: Joining the dots: a wider use for AML e-verification tools? (319)
Nicholas Broomfield: A mortgagee’s accountability for mortgage valuations following Shokrollah-Babaee v EFG Private Bank (321)
Angela Batterson: The dynamics of insurers as lenders in the NAV market (325)
Charles Kerrigan, Charlotte Bellamy: Artificial intelligence in syndicated lending (327)
Sam Roberts: Channel Islands and statutory fences: obtaining evidence for use overseas (333)
Paul Ferguson, Karl Clowry, Harriet Territt, Aziz Abdul: Going cashless: the treatment of cryptoassets in insolvency proceedings (335)
Caroline Dawson, Paul Ellison, Sara Evans: Enhancing trust in ESG ratings: welcome moves to fix the ecosystem (337)
In Practice
Laura Smith: Rated subscription lines: bringing fund governing documents and finance documents into focus (341)
Jon Ford, Michael Tan: CP24/2: a comparison with other International Financial Centres (343)
Lee Harding, Prag Sivaguru: Culture and D&I in Financial Services: the latest reforms to shift the dial (344)
Lu’ayy Minwer Al-Rimawi: The critical importance of “Shariah compliance” in the Islamic financial services industry: the UK’s need for jurisprudential clarity (346)
