This month, DCW unpacks the legal and practical shifts reshaping trade finance interpretation. Why are ICC Opinions becoming increasingly scarce?
Writing as a trade finance professional with a long background in the business, Dave Meynell offers his personal views on factors contributing to the sharp reduction in ICC Official Opinions issued over the past several years.
With the causation defence being increasingly engaged in misdelivery cases, there is a great deal for banks and shipowners to learn from The “Maersk Katalin” case.
Following his May 2024 conviction on two cheating charges and one count of instigating forgery for the purpose of cheating, Lim Oon Kuin (O.K. Lim), the 82-year old founder of collapsed oil trading firm Hin Leong Trading, was sentenced to 17 years and six months in jail on 18 November 2024.
With the causation defence being increasingly engaged in misdelivery cases, there is a great deal for banks and shipowners to learn from The “Maersk Katalin” case.
Four years after the Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) roll out of a “Code of Best Practices – Commodity Financing”
Applicant appealed Singapore trial court decision granting partial injunction on performance bond.
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