Recently Decided Cases
DCW maintains a list of recently-decided court cases involving commercial letters of credit, demand guarantees, and other trade finance instruments.
In the first of his series of DCW articles on major issues surrounding potential revision of UCP, ICC Banking Commission Senior Technical Advisor Dave Meynell examines the concept of negotiation.
English Court of Appeal (Civil Division) reversed trial judgments in favour of standby beneficiaries.
💡Kuvera Resources Pte Ltd. v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. [2023] [2023] SGCA 28 [Singapore] Type of Lawsuit: Beneficiary appealed
The Windsor Township v. Tompkins Financial Corp. case emphasizes the significance of original letters of credit but questions their necessity in modern electronic transactions.
Negotiating Bank sued LC Issuer for breach of reimbursement undertaking.
Honour, negotiation, and reimbursement – individually and collectively – are perhaps some of the least understood (or most misunderstood) terms in letter
The definition of “Banking Day” in UCP600 Article 2 ¶ 3 requires interested and affected parties to look outside the terms of the UCP to determine what days are actually banking days.
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