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• 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...

• ICC Draft Opinions January 2026

  11/12/2025
  For discussion and approval at the ICC Banking Commission meeting on 27 January 2026...

• ICC Trade Register 2025

  10/12/2025
  The ICC Trade Register is a benchmark dataset and analytical resource that captures default rates, loss-given default (LGD) metrics, and maturity/volume data for trade finance instruments globally...

• Transitioning from eUCP to URDTT - a look at the future

  03/12/2025
  Global trade finance stands at a point of profound transition...