August 2026
DCW Monthly: August 2026
Every industry eventually meets the bill for a problem it saw coming and filed away for later. Michael Byrne, IIBLP&
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DCW is beginning a series of visualizations drawn from our long-running U.S. LC statistics dataset. This first chart maps the top 50 U.S. banks by total LC values and plots them along two dimensions of trade finance activity: SBLCs as % of Assets (vertical axis) and Commercial LCs as % of Loans & Leases (horizontal axis).
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