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?
Egyptian banks opened LCs worth USD 11.6 billion over a six-week stretch from 1 March to mid- April 2022, an increase of 87% from the USD 6.2 billion in LCs issued for the same period one year ago, said SEE News, citing Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) sources.
The spike coincides with implementation of CBE’s decision to halt use of documentary collections backing import operations and instead require LCs.
After an adverse judgment levied civil sanctions against Marshall Spiegel (Debtor) for vexatious and abusive litigation practices, Debtor/Applicant applied
