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The Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) has urged EU policymakers to use the forthcoming Market Integration and Supervision Package...
The Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) has published its Government Bond Data Report for Q4 2025 (4Q25) and the full year 2025. It...
The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), together with the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI), the Office of Trade...
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has issued a summary of consultation responses on problems caused by existing ground...
Invoice discounting and factoringThe popularity of financing business through the invoice discounting and factoring of receivables has grown...
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 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)Coronavirus (COVID-19): This Practice Note contains information on subjects...
Legal opinions—uses, scope and structureLegal opinions are used in the vast majority of loan transactions. They are usually either a condition precedent to funding or a condition precedent to the signing of the finance documentation. They provide the addressee of the legal opinion, typically the
Execution of documents in a loan transactionSigning is an important milestone in a finance transaction. It is the stage when the parties execute the agreed versions of the documents and the transaction becomes binding (albeit, in some cases, subject to certain conditions precedent—see Practice Note:
Key provisions in the LMA standard terms and conditions for secondary debt tradingSecondary debt trades in the London market are typically documented through a suite of recommended form of documents produced by the Loan Market Association (LMA) and this Practice Note assumes that the parties to the
How to prepare or review conditions precedent in a loan transactionIn financing transactions, conditions precedent (known as CPs) are the specific conditions that need to be fulfilled for funding to occur under a facility agreement. They are not necessarily conditions to the facility agreement
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