Recently Decided Cases
DCW maintains a list of recently-decided court cases involving commercial letters of credit, demand guarantees, and other trade finance instruments.
Asian Development Bank and partners organized an event in Beijing advocating for MLETR adoption in China, addressing challenges posed by fragmented legislation, and highlighting rapid growth in electronic transactions.
David Meynell updates the ICC on the UK Electronic Trade Documents Act (ETD Act), highlighting its synergy with the UN Model Law, ICC rules, and practice guidelines. The paper explores key clauses, emphasizing harmonization and functional equivalence between the ETD Act and international frameworks.
UK Electronic Trade Documents Act 2023 marks a sea change in trade finance industry. At its core, the Act does something incredibly simple: it provides legal status to electronic trade documents, making them equivalent to their paper counterparts
The ICC Banking Commission held its 2023 Annual Meeting on 18-19 April 2023 via Zoom, and the DCW Executive Summary follows.
Potentially game-changing amendments have been proposed for the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) to govern commercial transactions, including Articles 2 (Sales), 3 (Commercial Paper), 5 (Letters of Credit), and more.
Following its decision to initiate a six-month review of all 140 ICC Opinions issued since formulation of ISBP745 in 2013
19-20 October 2022 The ICC Banking Commission held its 2022 Technical Meeting as a hybrid event in-person in Paris and
On 12 October 2022, HL Bill 57 – the Electronic Trade Documents Bill – was presented before the United Kingdom Parliament. The
Any government that has trade and economic growth at the heart of its agenda wants international trade to be cheaper,
Monetary Authority of Singapore "Financial Services and Markets Bill" from 2022.
Singapore's TradeTrust, developed by IMDA, integrates global standards, UNCITRAL's MLETR, and blockchain, allowing verification of electronically issued documents for global trade.
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