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The following Banking & Finance news provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Banking and Finance weekly highlights—5 February 2026
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:
Drafting techniques and contract languageThis Practice Note offers general guidance on how to approach document drafting and explains the meaning of some common expressions used in legal documents. It also looks at how courts look at the construction of contracts and considers case law relating to
Who can act as a process agent?A process agent is a person or entity that is appointed to receive, accept and acknowledge service of process on behalf of another party.A party to an agreement will often request that another party appoint a process agent where that other party is based in a foreign
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