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The Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has announced it will be reviewing the Loan to Income (LTI) flow limit requirements, following the Financial Policy Committee's (FPC) recommendation, as stated in its July financial...more
A version of this article first appeared in Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law in June 2025. In the case of IDBI Bank Limited v Axcel Sunshine Limited & Ors the English High Court held that,...more
London, UK – Geoffrey Wynne, partner and head of Sullivan's Trade & Export Finance Group, worked with an ITFA working group headed by Paul Coles, chair of its Market Practice Committee, to develop a Short Term SWIFT Financial...more
Borrowers and lenders negotiating commercial loan agreements should use precise contractual language to avoid having terms implied into their agreements. In MacDonald Hotels Limited & Anr v Bank of Scotland Plc [2025] EWHC 32...more
During the London InterBank Offered Rate (LIBOR) transition, and post LIBOR’s end date of June 30, 2023, the goal for all should be that (1) the effective interest rates be generally economically equivalent as a result of the...more
The doctrine of purview under English law plays a critical role in determining whether amendments to a secured facility require reaffirmation or re-execution of guarantees and security. However, when it comes to adjustments...more
The court implied a good faith term constraining a lender’s discretion to refuse a borrower's request to dispose of assets in a secured financing context. A power to consider requests for disposals - A facility agreement...more
In June and then October this year, the G7 announced an agreement to launch the 'Extraordinary Revenue Acceleration (ERA) Loans for Ukraine' initiative ("ERA Loans for Ukraine Initiative"), where the G7 members agree to...more
The Court of Appeal recently handed down judgment in Yieldpoint Stable Value Fund, LP v Kimura Commodity Trade Finance Fund Limited [2024] EWCA Civ 639, on Kimura's appeal from the High Court's decision that a participation...more
Welcome to the latest edition of the Spectrum, covering hot-topic issues in the structured finance markets in the U.S. and UK. This edition features the new UK securitization regime, eHELOCs, and climate risk disclosures....more
The Court of Appeal has affirmed a three-step test for penalty clauses: (1) is it a secondary obligation; (2) does the clause protect a legitimate interest; and (3) is it extortionate by reference to the legitimate interest?...more
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has reported its observations on firms’ market abuse surveillance arrangements in the May edition of Market Watch. The newsletter looks at a peer review of surveillance model testing...more
The London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) will stop being published on the basis of panel bank quotes and will be replaced by alternative replacement rates after June 30, 2023. In the spirit of the season, below is the...more
What does the future hold for NPLs? There's still plenty of business to be done, but buyers and sellers alike will need to change tack to get the most from the available opportunities....more
Omnibus accounts for payment systems operators and prefunding accounts: BoE update - The Bank of England (BoE) has updated its webpage on payment and settlement to add the following new sections to the information provided in...more
In February, Katten conducted a survey of 112 private credit industry professionals that showed how a large percentage of private equity investors and lenders in the private credit industry expect deal flow to increase in...more
Our Finance Group explains why the transition from the London Interbank Offered Rate remains an essential task amid COVID-19 and urges loan market participants not to wait on devising a transition plan. ...more
The disruption to capital markets caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has not shifted the overall timeline of regulators and industry bodies for the replacement of US dollar LIBOR with SOFR by the end of 2021. With the expected...more
On December 23, 2019, the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) issued an Industry Letter instructing each institution it regulates, including banks and licensed Fintechs, to make submissions describing the...more
In 2012, the Wheatley Review recommended reform rather than replacement of LIBOR, on the basis that a transition to a new benchmark would pose an unacceptably high risk of financial instability. Reform came in the form of a...more
LIBOR has been referred to as “the world’s most important number,” and $350 trillion in financial products pegged to LIBOR provide strong reason for believing that description to be true. LIBOR, the London Interbank Offered...more
Judge John Bates of the US District Court for DC has blocked a proposed $37 billion mega-health-care-merger between Aetna and Humana, one of 2 major deals before the courts opposed by the Obama-era DOJ over antitrust...more
Following news of Starboard Value’s plan to shake things up at Perrigo, we have this take from Breakingviews, which suggests that fending off a hostile takeover (as Perrigo did from Mylan) tends to “make fertile turf for an...more