Research Handbook on Secured Financing in Commercial Transactions

Edited by Frederique Dahan, Chief Counsel, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Contents:

Foreword
Philip R. Wood

PART I SECURED TRANSACTIONS LAW, ECONOMIC IMPACT AND REFORM
1. How do Creditor Rights Matter for Debt Finance? A Review of Empirical Evidence
John Armour, Antonia Menezes, Mahesh Uttamchandani And Kristin Van Zwieten

2. The Influence of the UNCITRAL Legislative Guide On Secured Transactions
Spyridon V. Bazinas

3. A Single Framework Governing Secured Transactions? Comparative Reflections
Frederique Dahan

4. Implementing Shari’ah-Compliant Collateral Security Regimes: Select Issues
Michael J.T. Mcmillen

5. Levelling the Legal Playing Field: What the Law Can and Can’t do to Improve Women’s Access to Secured Finance
Clare Manuel

PART II SECURED FINANCING: MANY FACETS AND CONTEXTS
6. Untying the Gordian Knot: Farmers, Banks, Insurers, Warehouse Receipts, Commodity Exchanges, Collateral Managers and Access to Credit
Nicholas Budd

7. Sowing the Good Seeds: The Brazilian Experience of Agriculture Financing
Christian de Lima Ramos

8. The Potential of Factoring for Improving SME Access to Finance
Ivor Istuk

9. Security in Project Finance and PPP and the Implications for Secured Transactions Law: “Security is a Shield, Not a Sword”
Jan-Hendrik Röver

10. Keeping it Real: SME Financing, Secured Transactions and Risk Appetite
Tom Johnson

11. Financial Collateral Arrangements and the Financial Markets
Edward Murray

12. Fundamentals of Taking Security Interests in Bank Accounts
Marek Dubovec

PART III TRENDS AND PERSPECTIVES FOR REFORM
13. Secured Transactions Law Reform in Russia: A Tortuous but Ultimately Successful Journey
Natalia Nikitina and Julia Lymar

14. Reforming an Established Secured Transactions Legal System: Why and How Morocco is Approaching the Challenge
Mustapha Mourahib, Bertrand Fournier-Montgieux and Ouns Lemseffer

15. Taking Stock of Romanian Secured Transactions After 15 Years of Reform: A Mapping of Past, Present and Future Milestones
Victor Pădurari and Andreea Simona Burtoiu

16. Piecemeal Reform: Is it The Answer?
Louise Gullifer

17. What Makes a Good Law of Security?
Richard Calnan

Index