DCW maintains a list of recently-decided court cases involving commercial letters of credit, standby LCs, demand guarantees, and other trade
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This month we’re digging into the legal, operational, and regulatory tensions at the core of LC and guarantee practice.
Three Draft Opinions will be addressed at the next session of ICC Banking Commission’s quarterly discussion of Opinions on
Contemporaneously with its release of its latest Draft Opinions on 6 June 2025, ICC issued a one-page memorandum note regarding
Following response in mid-2024 to proposed changes to its rules regarding letters of credit for recipients of high-cost competitive bidding
Further to a past update on ICC efforts to develop standard API for trade finance instruments in cooperation with SWIFT,
For the 7th year, the Institute of International Banking Law & Practice conducted its one-day Americas Trade Finance Compliance Annual Meeting. This summary provides an overview of topics discussed at the conference hosted by S&P Global on 2 April 2025 in New York and conducted as a hybrid event.
A survey conducted by DCW reinforces the notion that the eUCP Directory to date has been unable to boost confidence in the rules supplement designed for electronic commercial credits.
Four years after the Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) roll out of a “Code of Best Practices – Commodity Financing”
Most specialists in the trade finance industry are well aware of multiple court cases in recent years – many from Singapore
In a recent discussion, LC specialists were asked if they would be willing to issue a standby LC subject to
A recent article from a Canadian perspective acknowledges that the Canadian Border Service Agency (CBSA) faces increased pressure to identify
In 2022, the ICC Banking Commission began handling and discussing ICC Opinions on a quarterly basis instead of on a
May 2020: ICC Banking Commission issues “Addendum to the ICC Guidance Paper on the Use of Sanctions Clauses (2014)” “The
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