DCW Monthly: December 2025
As the year draws to a close, this month’s DCW focuses on the issues likely to carry into 2026.
The ICC Banking Commission’s quarterly meeting, held via Zoom on 21 October 2025, discussed six draft opinions, the status of Technical Advisory Briefings, a call for comments on the future of UCP and ISBP, and the emergence of stablecoin as relates to ICC rules and digital trade law.
Recent writing has explored the notion that usance payment at sight (UPAS) letters of credit serve as an effective trade
Continuing an annual survey written by top legal experts each year since 1992, Carter Klein examines the most significant letter of credit issues emerging from cases decided in 2023.
The following scenario was widely discussed during a recent meeting among bankers. The relevant details: Outgoing collection documents were sent
Seller sued Collecting Bank for breach of URC 522
Summary takeaways from the ICC Banking Commission Technical Meeting
Does an NY court have jurisdiction over an Indian collecting bank that is alleged to have violated the URC 522 for neither collecting and remitting funds to pay for shipments?
Egyptian banks opened LCs worth USD 11.6 billion over a six-week stretch from 1 March to mid- April 2022
Starting March 1, 2022, Egypt's Central Bank now mandates the use of documentary credits for import operations, discontinuing documentary collections, except for certain exceptions.
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