DCW Monthly: February 2025
This month, we're spotlighting the challenges and hard-earned lessons emerging from LC disputes and sanctions enforcement crackdowns. Carter
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.
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.
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.
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This month, we're spotlighting the challenges and hard-earned lessons emerging from LC disputes and sanctions enforcement crackdowns. Carter
DCW maintains a list of recently-decided court cases involving commercial letters of credit, standby LCs, demand guarantees, and other trade
There's more (or less) to signatures than how they are labelled. In his article, Dr. Alan Davidson sheds light on variants of electronic signatures.
The push to advance trade through digitialisation figures prominently on the agendas of industry events taking place in Dubai, United
DCW Recap of Arnold & Porter Webinar From primarily a US perspective, legal professionals from Arnold & Porter and a
A webinar hosted by the Association of Trade Finance Compliance Professionals (ATFCP) on 28 January 2025 featured particular focus on
DCW readers are aware of several recent court cases which have illustrated the problems that can emerge for trade finance
Operating on the premise that the trade finance industry currently lacks a standard document exchange proposition for trade finance instruments,
There's more (or less) to signatures than how they are labelled. In his article, Dr. Alan Davidson sheds light on variants of electronic signatures.
Low default rates, increased flexibility, technological advancements and evolving regulations make standby letters of credit (SBLCs) an appealing option in international trade
A dispute involving an ISP98 standby and litigation in two jurisdictions raises a host of considerations. Here, Carter Klein comments on five facets of the Shinetec (Australia) Pty Ltd. v. The Gosford Pty Ltd Australian appellate court decision.
In the third instalment of his DCW article series on major issues surrounding potential revision of UCP, ICC Banking Commission Senior Technical Advisor Dave Meynell confronts continuing misplaced reliance on strict compliance.
This month, we're spotlighting the challenges and hard-earned lessons emerging from LC disputes and sanctions enforcement crackdowns. Carter
The push to advance trade through digitialisation figures prominently on the agendas of industry events taking place in Dubai, United
DCW Recap of Arnold & Porter Webinar From primarily a US perspective, legal professionals from Arnold & Porter and a
A webinar hosted by the Association of Trade Finance Compliance Professionals (ATFCP) on 28 January 2025 featured particular focus on
Issuer ICBC applied to stay action alleging forum non conveniens.
Applicant Consolidated Electrical Distributors ex parte motion for temporary restraining order against issuer Bank of America.
Contractor Shinetec (Australia) and parent company Shanxi Construction Investment Group (standby applicant) appealed dismissal of claims against beneficiary The Gosford.
Approving letter of credit to serve as supersedeas.
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.
For the 25th consecutive year, the Institute of International Banking Law & Practice conducted its one-day Letter of Credit Law Summit. This Executive Summary provides an overview of topics discussed and debated at the conference hosted by Hogan Lovells in New York and conducted as a hybrid event.
Conducted by the American Bar Association and the American Bankers Association (ABA), the 36th annual ABA/ABA Financial Crimes Enforcement Conference took place 8-9 October 2024 in Arlington, Virginia.
This Executive Summary provides an overview of topics discussed and debated by leading professionals at the conference.
DCW delivers quarterly LC issuance statistics from the top 600 US-based banks. Here’s the latest data for 3Q 2024.
DCW delivers quarterly LC issuance statistics from the top 600 US-based banks. Here’s the latest data for Q2 2024.
DCW reports quarterly LC issuance statistics from the top 600 banks headquartered in the U.S.
A Bangladesh businessman arrested in August 2024 and jailed following the ousting of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina for whom
Nazrul Islam Mazumder, chairman of NASSA Group, a Bangladesh conglomerate active in the apparel, banking, and real estate industries, is
A Chennai-based importer, its director, and six former officials of a company operating under the Indian government’s Ministry of
After receiving dozens of containers filled with soil, gravel and stones instead of the valuable natural minerals it had agreed
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