Excerpted from the DCW Executive Summary of the 2025 ICC Banking Commission Meeting ICC Draft Opinion TA949 Dealing with a
When businesspeople engage in mutual business dealings and loans to each other under multiple corporate entities they operate but their
The High Court in Kampala (Uganda) upheld an appellate court decision on 25 July 2025 that Equity Bank lawfully sold
Writing in a personal capacity as a professional deeply familiar with the ICC Opinion process and the trade finance business, Dave Meynell offers response to three remarks made by Rupnarayan Bose in a June 2025 DCW article on ICC Opinion TA.948.
Since a draft was included in the presentation at issue in ICC Opinion TA.948, it prompts important questions about examination not only under UCP but also under bills of exchange law.
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.
Issuer ICBC applied to stay action alleging forum non conveniens.
Bank of China’s fraud lawsuit against BP Singapore over $125M in LC payments tied to non-existent oil survives dismissal. The court found sufficient grounds to proceed on claims of fraud, negligence, and conspiracy—raising the stakes for LC compliance in commodity trades.
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