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The following Banking & Finance news provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Banking and Finance weekly highlights—8 May 2025
Bills of exchange—structure and partiesBills of exchange are negotiable instruments that represent an unconditional promise by one party to pay...
Term Loan B facilitiesThis Practice Note discusses Term Loan B (TLB) facilities which frequently appear as a tranche of senior facilities in...
Invoice discounting and factoringThe popularity of financing business through the invoice discounting and factoring of receivables has grown...
Common financial covenantsThis Practice Note explains certain common financial covenants used in commercial finance transactions including:•minimum...
Guarantor rights and how to defer them in guarantee documentation—no competition clausesGuarantees are a contractual arrangement where one party (the guarantor) agrees to answer for the liability of another party (the principal) to another party (the guaranteed party).Guarantors have various rights
What is set-off and when is it available?Set-off is a complex yet important concept in legal proceedings generally and for many different types of transaction.Independent set-off and transaction set-off can both be used as a defence in legal proceedings. For more information, see Practice Notes:
What is the banker’s right of set-off?The banker’s right of set-off refers to the right of a bank to combine two or more of a customer’s accounts held with that bank, where one account has a credit balance and the other has a debit balance, in order to give a net position. There is a debate as to
Guarantees—commercial benefitOnce the capacity and authority of a company to enter into a guarantee have been investigated, the next step is to consider the commercial (or corporate) benefit of entering into the guarantee.Issues of commercial benefit can be of particular concern in finance
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