October 2025
DCW Monthly: January 2026
We start 2026 with a focus on how courts, technology, and compliance realities are testing frameworks that were largely built
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DCW Updates
ICC Adjusts Opinion TA930rev to Conform with Amended Sanctions Guidance
Contemporaneously with its release of its latest Draft Opinions on 6 June 2025, ICC issued a one-page memorandum note regarding
DCW Updates
Weiss Decries US FCC Changes to Screening Standards for LC Issuing Banks
Following response in mid-2024 to proposed changes to its rules regarding letters of credit for recipients of high-cost competitive bidding
DCW Updates
ICC Announces Standard API for Attachments of Trade Finance Instruments
Further to a past update on ICC efforts to develop standard API for trade finance instruments in cooperation with SWIFT,
DCW Conference Report
2025 Americas TF Compliance Annual Meeting: Executive Summary
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.
DCW Articles
Directory Yet to Move the eUCP Usage Needle
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.
DCW Updates
Singapore Paper Shows Banks Clear Inspection, but Gaps Remain
Four years after the Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) roll out of a “Code of Best Practices – Commodity Financing”
DCW Updates
Charter Party Bills of Lading: Know the Risk Mitigants
Most specialists in the trade finance industry are well aware of multiple court cases in recent years – many from Singapore
DCW Updates
Discussion Exposes Troubling Standby Wording and Choice of Rules
In a recent discussion, LC specialists were asked if they would be willing to issue a standby LC subject to
DCW Updates
Coordinated Effort Needed to Confront Canada/US Fentanyl Flow
A recent article from a Canadian perspective acknowledges that the Canadian Border Service Agency (CBSA) faces increased pressure to identify
DCW Updates
Why So Few ICC Opinions?
In 2022, the ICC Banking Commission began handling and discussing ICC Opinions on a quarterly basis instead of on a
Brief Timeline on Actions and Decisions Influencing ICC’s Categorization of Sanctions Clauses
May 2020: ICC Banking Commission issues “Addendum to the ICC Guidance Paper on the Use of Sanctions Clauses (2014)” “The
DCW Conference Report
November 2024 ICC Banking Commission Meeting: Executive Summary
The ICC Banking Commission conducted its final meeting of 2024 virtually via Teams on 20-21 November. Four separate portions of the event open to Banking Commission members and ICC National Committee representatives took place.