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.
Four years after the Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) roll out of a “Code of Best Practices – Commodity Financing” intended to serve as an industry benchmark for bank lending standards in this sector, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) conducted inspections on select banks to assess their commodity financing (CF) business practices and on 4 March 2025 released an Information Paper, “Governance and Risk Management of Commodity Financing”, presenting its observations and supervisory expectations following the inspections.
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.
URDG 758 Article 15(c) makes clear that the requirement stated in Article 15(a) always applies unless expressly excluded in the guarantee, but does ISDGP help or harm in explaining this provision?
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