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The uncertain economic climate has led to unprecedented challenges in the finance sector. It is more difficult than ever to get your deals done.
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Latest Banking & Finance News
The Loan Market Association (LMA) has published a user guide and model Murabaha Facility Transfer Agreements to facilitate the transfer of an existing...
This week's edition of Banking and Finance weekly highlights includes: (1) ISDA launches digital Emissions Transactions Definitions; (2) ESMA...
The International Capital Market Association (ICMA) has published its quarterly report for Q4 2026, covering regulatory developments across primary,...
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has announced that three quarters of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS)’s 27 member...
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) has published a paper on tokenised money market funds (TMMFs), which it believes could be a...
Latest Banking & Finance Practice Notes
This Practice Note looks at what a collateral warranty is, which parties will want collateral warranties on a construction project and why. It...
Forthcoming Change—reform of the UK AIFM regimeOn 14 July 2026, HM Treasury and the FCA published a co-ordinated package of proposals to reform the UK...
Forthcoming Change—reform of the UK AIFM regimeOn 14 July 2026, HM Treasury and the FCA published a co-ordinated package of proposals to reform the UK...
ARCHIVED: This Practice Note has been archived and is not maintained.This practical guidance relates to the pre-Procurement Act 2023 regimeThis...
This Practice Note describes the law of electronic signatures (also known as digital signatures, e-signatures, E-Signatures, eSignatures, paperless...
Latest Banking & Finance Precedents
[To be printed on the headed paper of the Guarantor][insert date]To: [insert name and address of the lender]Dear [insert full name of lender]1We refer...
This Assignment is made on [insert day and month] 20[insert year]Parties1[insert name of Assignor], a company incorporated in England and Wales with...
TO BE PRINTED ON THE HEADED PAPER OF THE SELLER’S LENDER’S SOLICITORSTo:[insert details of the buyer’s solicitors](the Buyer’s Solicitors)[insert...
This Deed is made on [insert day and month] 20[insert year]Parties1[insert name of Lender] of [insert address] (the Lender); and2[insert name of...
Notice designating an Early Termination Date following an Illegality Termination Event[Insert Lead-in Language]Illegality Termination EventWe refer to...
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Featured Banking & Finance content
Receivables purchase transactions: invoice discounting and factoring
Invoice discounting and factoringThe popularity of financing business through the invoice discounting and factoring of receivables has grown...
Foreign exchange (FX) derivatives
Foreign exchange (FX) derivativesWhat is a FX derivative?A foreign exchange (FX) derivative is a type of derivative whose payoff depends on the FX...
Types of debt securities
Types of debt securitiesWhat are debt securities?In the context of the debt capital markets, the term 'debt security' means a financial instrument,...
An introduction to repo and the Global Master Repurchase Agreement (GMRA)
An introduction to repo and the Global Master Repurchase Agreement (GMRA)Coronavirus (COVID-19): This Practice Note contains information on subjects...
Offtake contracts—key issues for project finance lenders
Offtake contracts—key issues for project finance lendersMost projects are underpinned by a complex web of contractual relationships between all the...
What is the banker’s right of set-off?
Pledges
PledgesA pledge is one of the four types of security recognised under English law—the types of security are described in Practice Note: Types of...
Key features of debentures
Key features of debenturesDebentures are used in many types of financing where it is desirable to take security over all of the assets of a particular...
Overdrafts, term loans and revolving credit facilities
Overdrafts, term loans and revolving credit facilitiesThis Practice Note explains the features of three common types of loan facility:•overdrafts•term...
Bilateral, syndicated and club arrangements
Bilateral, syndicated and club arrangementsOne of the features used to categorise loans is the number of lenders involved. A loan involving one lender...
Negative pledges
Negative pledgesThis Practice Note examines:•why negative pledge clauses are used in commercial transactions •the consequences of breaching negative...
The security agent
The security agent and security trust provisionsThe security agentIn a syndicated loan transaction, the security agent (sometimes also known as the...
Introductory guide to financial covenants
Common financial covenantsThis Practice Note explains certain common financial covenants used in commercial finance transactions including:•minimum...
Term Loan B facilities
Term Loan B facilitiesThis Practice Note discusses Term Loan B (TLB) facilities which frequently appear as a tranche of senior facilities in...
What is OTC derivative contract clearing?
What is OTC derivative contract clearing?What is clearing?When an over-the-counter (OTC) derivative transaction between two counterparties is...
Introductory guide to asset finance
Introduction to asset financeWhat is asset finance?Asset finance is a method of providing financing for the purchase of particular tangible movable...
Incremental debt flexibility or accordion features
Incremental debt flexibility or accordion featuresWhat are incremental facilities?An incremental facility is feature included in a credit agreement...
Selling a loan by sub-participation
Selling a loan by sub-participationSub-participation is a means by which a lender can transfer its risk in a loan to another entity. It is used in the...
Associated legal terms
Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI)
The leading Islamic international autonomous not-for-profit corporate body that prepares accounting, auditing, governance, ethics and Shari’ah standards for Islamic Financial Institutions (IFIs) and the global Islamic finance industry. Established in Bahrain in 1991, it is supported by a number of institutional members from over 45 countries, including central banks and regulatory authorities, financial institutions, accounting and auditing firms, and legal firms. Its standards are currently followed by the leading Islamic financial institutions across the world and have introduced a progressive degree of harmonisation of international Islamic finance practices. It also offers professional qualification programs (notably Certified Islamic Professional Accountant (CIPA), the Certified Shari’ah Adviser and Auditor (CSAA), and the corporate compliance program) in efforts to enhance the industry’s human resources base and governance structures.
Finance parties
Typically refers to the lenders, facility agent, arranger, security agent on a syndicated facility agreement, though there may be other finance parties.
Wakala
A contract of agency.
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