Foreword / by Sir Roy Goode QC -- Introduction / N. Orkun Akseli -- Money, bank debt, and business cycles : between economic development and financial crises / David Bholat -- Secured transactions law reform, UNCITRAL, and the export of foreign legal models / Gerard McCormack -- Commentary on the availability of credit / Joanna Gray -- International organizations as global law-makers: seven shifts in practice for secured transactions law and beyond / Terrence C. Halliday -- The creation of international commercial law standards by international financial institutions - why they do it and whether they should / Spiros V. Bazinas -- The power of secured transactions law and the challenge of its reform / Frederique Dahan -- Commentary on the involvement of international financial institutions in secured transactions law reform / Loukas Mistelis -- The utility and efficacy of the UNCITRAL legislative guide on secured transactions / Spiros V. Bazinas -- The utility and efficacy of the UN convention on the assignment of receivables and the facilitation of credit / N. Orkun Akseli -- Commentary on the availability of credit and the utility and efficacy of the UNCITRAL's legislative efforts in secured transactions / Henry Deeb Gabriel -- How may international standards assist the law reform in England? / Anjanette H. Raymond -- Commentary on the international standards and the reform of English personal property securities law / Noel McGrath -- The UNCITRAL legislative guide to secured transactions as a model for law reform : some conclusions / Hugh Beale.