DCW Monthly: June 2025
This month we’re digging into the legal, operational, and regulatory tensions at the core of LC and guarantee practice.
Looking back at Professor James E. Byrne's 6 predictions for LCs in 2012 - see how they hold up.
Explore ISP98's evolution and global impact on standby LCs - 25 years on. Discover its unique features, comparisons with UCP 600 & URDG 758, and the challenges users face.
The silent confirmation market is still active and prevalent for LCs in Asian countries as silent confirmation is one of the means for a beneficiary to mitigate issuing bank and country risk when it does not want other banks to confirm its credit.
Prompted by the perceived lack of general awareness of ISBP 821 provisions for handling certificates, the ICC Banking Commission addressed “Handling of Certificates under Documentary Credits subject to the UCP 600” in Technical Advisory Briefing No. 8 (TAB-8).
Summary takeaways from the ICC Banking Commission Technical Meeting
Dave Meynell and Gary Collyer identify elements from the ISBP 821 drafting process that could potentially form the basis of a revision to UCP600.
A look into application of US UCC Article 5 for letter of credits outside of the United States
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