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This overview is a guide to the Lexis+®UK Banking & Finance content within the Americas subtopic, with links to the appropriate materials.

Leading law firms in different jurisdictions have prepared guides aimed at banking and finance lawyers which provide a summary of key issues that would be relevant in the context of a lender making commercial loan facilities available to a borrower ...

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Banking and Finance weekly highlights—3 April 2025

This week's edition of Banking and Finance weekly highlights includes: (1) our cases round-up from March 2025; (2) LMA publishes updated green, social and sustainability-linked loan principles; and (3) ICMA updates SFTR reporting recommendations with new guidance.

ESMA issues update on bond CTP preparations

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published a statement urging market participants to prepare for the start of the activities of the Consolidated Tape Provider (CTP) for bonds. ESMA expects the European Commission to adopt its December 2024 draft technical standards without substantial changes and encourages market participants to use these standards for preparation. ESMA also provides an update on timing with regards to CTP selection which began in January 2025 and which it now expects to conclude by July 2025.

HM Treasury launches National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority

HM Treasury has established the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority (NISTA), to take effect from 1 April 2025, merging existing infrastructure bodies to streamline project delivery. The new authority combines infrastructure strategy and delivery functions previously split between separate agencies, alongside publishing the Teal book as a project delivery guide. Jean-Christophe Gray has been appointed interim chief executive, with National Infrastructure Commission Commissioners forming an Advisory Council.

UK declares that the Hague Judgments Convention shall extend to Scotland and Northern Ireland

On 31 March 2025, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the Netherlands announced that further to its declaration of 27 June 2024 extending the Hague Judgments Convention to England and Wales only, the UK has declared, in accordance with Article 25 and 30, that the Convention shall also extend to Scotland and Northern Ireland. In accordance with Article 30, this will take effect on 1 July 2025.

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