This month we’re exploring where traditional instruments meet modern LC practice, focusing especially on the complications surrounding drafts and
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.
The ICC has neither accepted the draft as a standard requirement, nor have they been successful in casting it out from LC practice. This article is an attempt to resolve the confusion and place bills of exchange laws and the UCP in their proper perspectives.
Following a request from India for Mehul Choksi’s extradition, Belgium arrested the fugitive former diamond trader on 12 April
A former Additional Secretary to Sri Lanka’s Agriculture State Ministry is facing charges in connection with an alleged financial
Guarantee & Standby Forum: May 19 Non-Case Material: * Singapore Paper Shows Banks Clear Inspection, but Gaps Remain (MAS Paper -
This month, DCW unpacks the legal and practical shifts reshaping trade finance interpretation. Why are ICC Opinions becoming increasingly scarce?
Writing as a trade finance professional with a long background in the business, Dave Meynell offers his personal views on factors contributing to the sharp reduction in ICC Official Opinions issued over the past several years.
With the causation defence being increasingly engaged in misdelivery cases, there is a great deal for banks and shipowners to learn from The “Maersk Katalin” case.
URDG 758 Article 15(c) makes clear that the requirement stated in Article 15(a) always applies unless expressly excluded in the guarantee, but does ISDGP help or harm in explaining this provision?
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
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