DCW Monthly: June 2025
This month we’re digging into the legal, operational, and regulatory tensions at the core of LC and guarantee practice.
Contemporaneously with its release of its latest Draft Opinions on 6 June 2025, ICC issued a one-page memorandum note regarding
Non-documentary conditions and the General Rule against them can be prone to unhelpful misconceptions, potentially resulting in problems.
Following his writing in the past two editions of DCW, Robert Parson examines legal developments on sanctions and sanctions clauses that have arisen in courts recently and implications for LC practice.
In the fourth instalment of his DCW article series on major issues surrounding potential revision of UCP, ICC Banking Commission Senior Technical Advisor Dave Meynell reinforces the case for simple documentary credits and offers tips on how to construct them.
The ICC Banking Commission conducted its final meeting of 2024 virtually via Teams on 20-21 November. Four separate portions of the event open to Banking Commission members and ICC National Committee representatives took place.
Stemming from Kuvera Resources Pte Ltd. v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. where the High Court of Singapore determined that
A look into application of US UCC Article 5 for letter of credits outside of the United States
The historical challenges of suretyship in English law, emphasizing the need for modernizing guarantee forms. Recent cases, like Shanghai Shipyard, underscore the importance of clarity.
Different jurisdictional interpretations of guarantee law reinforce the need for practice rules in demand guarantee transactions.
The position of a banker in the trade finance environment includes trying to reconcile opposite demands of a buyer and a seller.
The ICC Banking Commission released its “Technical Advisory Briefing No. 1” on the topic of Non-Documentary conditions in Documentary Credits subject to UCP 600.
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