Free this month
DCW Monthly: June 2025
This month we’re digging into the legal, operational, and regulatory tensions at the core of LC and guarantee practice.
DCW Feature
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Free this month
DCW Monthly: June 2025
This month we’re digging into the legal, operational, and regulatory tensions at the core of LC and guarantee practice.
DCW Updates
DCW Monthly: May 2025
This month we’re exploring where traditional instruments meet modern LC practice, focusing especially on the complications surrounding drafts and
DCW Updates
DCW Monthly: April 2025
This month, DCW unpacks the legal and practical shifts reshaping trade finance interpretation. Why are ICC Opinions becoming increasingly scarce?
DCW Feature
ICC Opinions: Why has Usage Reduced?
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.
DCW Updates
DCW Monthly: March 2025
This month, we sort through some of the big questions shaping LC practice today. Is it time to rewrite UCP
DCW Updates
DCW Monthly: February 2025
This month, we're spotlighting the challenges and hard-earned lessons emerging from LC disputes and sanctions enforcement crackdowns. Carter
Demand Guarantees
Letters of Credit*
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.
DCW Articles
Hard Cases – Taking Stock of How Trader Defaults and Geopolitical Events Shaped LC Court Decisions
Following his writing in the January 2025 edition of DCW, Robert Parson continues his look at high profile cases by revisiting decisions surfacing from Singapore commodity defaults of recent years.
January 2025
DCW Monthly: January 2025
The first month of the year is in full swing, and the trade finance world isn’t slowing down. Standby
Standby LC
Standby LCs: A Reliable Tool in International Trade
Low default rates, increased flexibility, technological advancements and evolving regulations make standby letters of credit (SBLCs) an appealing option in international trade
DCW LC Statistics
LC Statistics: 3Q24 US Bank LC Issuance
DCW delivers quarterly LC issuance statistics from the top 600 US-based banks. Here’s the latest data for 3Q 2024.
DCW Updates
DCW Monthly: December 2024
We’re thrilled to share the newest edition of DCW’s premium monthly content. This month’s highlights include: * Five