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• Evolution of UCP 600 and its impact on documentary credits

  02/07/2025
  Trade finance has always been shaped by the need for certainty, efficiency, and risk mitigation...

• The eUCP: It’s time to let go of the paperweight

  11/06/2025
  In 2025, we're still waiting for documents to arrive by courier, while cargo is already halfway across the globe and the client is on their mobile app checking its real-time GPS status...

• eUCP: the future of documentary credits

  09/06/2025
  There's a certain comfort in the rustle of paper...

• ICC Draft Opinions August 2025

  09/06/2025
  For discussion and approval at the ICC Banking Commission meeting on 5 August 2025...

• ICC Opinions: Why has Usage Reduced?

  23/04/2025
  Ortiginally published at https://www...

• ICC Principles for Sustainable Trade

  02/04/2025
  The ICC Principles for Sustainable Trade - Wave 3 is a comprehensive document developed by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in collaboration with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG)...

• Geopolitics, sanctions, and trade finance

  26/03/2025
  International trade is inherently political...

• Revising UCP 600

  19/03/2025
  Now that the revision of ISBP 821 is underway, the perennial question is again being raised: do we have a business case to revise UCP 600?   Also published at https://www...

• ICC Trade Register 2024

  12/03/2025
  The 2024 ICC Trade Register Report provides an in-depth analysis of global trade and trade finance dynamics, with a focus on risk assessment, emerging trends, and the evolving regulatory landscape...

• ICC Guidance on use of sanctions - update

  05/03/2025
  A previous edition of this Guidance contained a statement that sanctions clauses are non-documentary conditions for the purposes of the UCP and the URDG...