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Simple Documentary Credits: why the market needs to act now
08/04/2026
There has always been a tendency in trade finance to accept complexity as part of the process...
ICC Banking Commission March 2026
01/04/2026
During the Technical session, a number of important issues were discussed...
ICC Ecoterms® on Circular Economy
04/03/2026
As sustainability moves from aspiration to obligation, one of the less discussed, but increasingly critical, challenges facing global trade is language...
Ada Lovelace, computation, and the hidden logic of digital trade finance
11/02/2026
Long before computers existed in any recognisable form, Ada Lovelace grasped something that still shapes modern computing and, by extension, the digital systems underpinning global trade and finance...
ICC Banking Commission Technical Advisory Briefing No. 17
03/02/2026
This covered Handling of ‘surrendered' bills of lading under documentary credits subject to UCP 600 and was published on 2 February 2026, link below...
ICC Final Opinions January 2026
27/01/2026
Approved at the ICC Banking Commission meeting on 27 January 2026...
The Turing Test, AI, and LLMs
15/01/2026
Alan Turing, one of my ‘heroes', along with Ada Lovelace, who will be the subject of a separate blog...
Channels & Rails
31/12/2025
In contemporary trade-finance discourse, the word rails has quietly migrated from the vocabulary of payments engineers into mainstream strategic and policy conversations, and it is now being used regularly...
MLETR - Australia
24/12/2025
In a major step for Australia's digital trade agenda, the Standing Council of Attorneys-General (SCAG) issued a communique on 14 November 2025, confirming that the Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records (MLETR) will be implemented via uniform amendments to each state and territories Electronic Transactions Acts (ETAs)...
Digital Assets Bill
17/12/2025
November 2025 marked a significant milestone for the UK's digital economy, the Property (Digital Assets etc...