DCW Monthly: June 2025
This month we’re digging into the legal, operational, and regulatory tensions at the core of LC and guarantee practice.
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.
Three Draft Opinions will be addressed at the next session of ICC Banking Commission’s quarterly discussion of Opinions on
Contemporaneously with its release of its latest Draft Opinions on 6 June 2025, ICC issued a one-page memorandum note regarding
Further to a past update on ICC efforts to develop standard API for trade finance instruments in cooperation with SWIFT,
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.
The ongoing effort to revise ISBP 821 (2023) has now reached an advanced stage with an updated Draft 3 revision
A survey conducted by DCW reinforces the notion that the eUCP Directory to date has been unable to boost confidence in the rules supplement designed for electronic commercial credits.
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.
The ICC Banking Commission returned to Dubai, UAE, for its 2025 Annual Meeting on 17 February. The one-day event was organized by ICC UAE and hosted by Dubai Chambers. In addition to those participating in-person, others attended virtually.
In the fifth instalment of his DCW article series on major contemporary issues surrounding documentary credit practice, ICC Banking Commission Senior Technical Advisor Dave Meynell offers his thoughts on the highly-charged question: Is it time for UCP to be revised?
In 2022, the ICC Banking Commission began handling and discussing ICC Opinions on a quarterly basis instead of on a
The push to advance trade through digitialisation figures prominently on the agendas of industry events taking place in Dubai, United
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