Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 2025/4

Spotlight

  • Duncan Sheehan: Cryptoassets are choses in action (231)

Features

  • Stephen M Blank, Ken Rothenberg, Phillip D Taylor: Understanding co-operation agreements: current boom, fundamental issues and latest trends (234)
  • Nik Yeo: Cryptoassets as loan security (237)
  • Simon Clarke, Nihar Lovell, Catherine Bagge: Hedging: where is the dividing line? (242)
  • Nick Cusack, Susan Whitehead, Alistair Handy: In sickness and in health: a review of transfer provisions in European leveraged loan agreements (244)
  • Andrew Kinnes, Hamish Patrick: Scotland’s new statutory pledge: taking security over shares (247)
  • Qalid Mohamed, Mhairi Caminiti: Non-bank financial intermediaries (NBFIs): leverage, liquidity and interconnectedness (251)
  • Giles Allison, Haafiz Suleman, Laura Hasson, Jack Robinson, Seraphina Monson: The expanding nature of undervalue transactions: recent cases and practical issues (255)
  • Cameron Roper, Paul Tannenbaum: Navigating the impact of portfolio company distress events under NAV facilities (259)
  • Faizal Khan, Teha Gausel: Transfer restrictions in the age of synthetic credit risk transfer: time for a re-assessment? (261)
  • Stephen Tobin: Considerations for lenders to infrastructure assets (263)
  • Andrew McClurg: Debt financing transactions in Northern Ireland: what practitioners need to know (265)
  • David Shone, Rufus Sachdev-Wood: Bank Resolution (Recapitalisation) Bill: good policy, bad politics? (268)
  • Callum Reid-Hutchings: Freezing the status quo: a critical analysis of 2024’s watershed moments in freezing injunction jurisprudence (270)

In Practice

  • Robert Brittain: Wirral v Indivior: a setback for securities law class actions (273)
  • Tirsh O’ Donnell, Mahrnaz AFshar, India Peterson: A defining moment for US digital asset policy (274)
  • Stuart Neely, Lise Smit: Business and human rights developments in the financial sector (275)

Regulars

  • Case Analysis by 3 Verulam Buildings (276)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (280)
  • Market Movements by CMS (284)
  • Deals (286)
  • Legal Ease with Lexis+® UK (287)

Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 2024/11

Spotlight

  • Leonrd Ng, Qalid Mohamed: Artificial intelligence in financial markets: systemic risk and market abuse concerns (715)

Feature

  • Sarah Paterson: The state of cross-class cramdown in the UK (719)
  • Craig Morrison: Knowing is half the battle: the economic torts and lender liability (722)
  • Matt Dunn, Jason Ewart: How do investors make returns on preferred equity? (726)
  • Michelle Glimore-Parry: The asset sales covenant: sometimes when it’s there it’s barely there at all! (728)
  • Nik Yeo: Crypto exchanges: an update on D’Aloia (731)
  • Louis Doyle: Marshalling by apportionment: a developing doctrine (736)
  • Gareth Old, Young Kim: Growing up or coming down to earth? Broader trends in the US CRT market (738)
  • Sung-Hyui Park, Edward Crane: Loans involving companies limited by guarantee: key issues for consideration (740)
  • Simon Clarke, Sarah Hawes, Ceri Morgan, Thomas Vaughan, Erica MacDonald: UK prospectus regime reform: potential impact on securities litigation (742)
  • Darragh Connell: Draft Property (Digital Assets etc) Bill: laying the foundations for the development of the common law (746)
  • Simon Fisher: Forewarned is forearmed: thoughts on the impact of an IT systems outage on security registrations at Companies House (748)
  • Philip Hertz, Michael Lyons, Rahim Darr, Dilara Topcu, Genevieve Morgan: English schemes of arrangement, restructuring plans, insolvency proceedings and the impact of sanctions legislation (751)
  • Russell Kelsall, Paula Twist: The Financial Conduct Authority, the court and the Financial Ombudsman Service: who is in charge? (755)

In Practice

Embedded law

  • Charles Kerrigan: A thought experiment on the future of legal services (757)
  • Herbert Smith Freehills: The auditor’s duty to report to the FCA when it suspects fraudulent activity (759)
  • Claire Clayton-Stead, Leontia McArdle, Megan Ineson: Is the FOS being fair and reasonable in its approach to unaffordable lending complaints? (760)

Regulars

  • Book Review by Geert van Calster of Governing law risks in international business transactions by Philip Wood CBE KC (Hon) (761)
  • Case Analysis by One Essex Court and a lecturer at Meiji University (Japan) (762)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (767)
  • Market Movements by CMS (771)
  • Deals (773)
  • Legal Ease with Lexis+® UK (774)
  • International Briefing from Switzerland (775)