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This month we’re digging into the legal, operational, and regulatory tensions at the core of LC and guarantee practice.
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DCW delivers quarterly LC issuance statistics from the top 600 US-based banks. Here’s the latest data for 1Q 2025.
Landlord sued Lessee for use and occupancy of commercial lease.
A 75-year old disbarred attorney and convicted felon from California pleaded guilty in a New York federal court on 10
A 67-year-old Singapore citizen was arrested in India on 22 April 2025 for his alleged involvement in a timber import
Following Woori Bank’s publication of a financial incident disclosure that its subsidiary in Indonesia has confirmed fraud allegations involving
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A deceptive LC transfer leads a confirming bank to pay twice. Explore this trade finance fraud case from Abdurrahman Özalp’s book on international trade.
On appeal, Court considered whether trial court: erred in holding that Subcontractor/Applicant was contractually precluded from relying on the unconscionability exception; correctly held that Contractor/Beneficiary’s demand was not fraudulent; and erred in declining to discharge the injunction.
For document examiners and trade finance operations staff, few decisions carry more weight—or more risk—than determining whether a
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