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• Minimising data complexity in trade finance transactions

  12/08/2026
  Trade finance transactions are often burdened by excessive and overlapping data requirements which is usually not driven by necessity, but by accumulated practice, risk aversion, poor tradition, and inconsistent interpretation of rules, resulting in inefficiency, increased discrepancies, delayed payment, and reduced scalability...

• ICC Banking Commission Technical Advisory Briefing No. 16

  29/07/2026
  This covered Third Party Documents and was published on 29 July 2026, link below...

• ICC Banking Commission Technical Advisory Briefing No. 15

  29/07/2026
  This covered Force Majeure and was published on 29 July 2026, link below...

• ICC Draft Opinions July 2026

  22/07/2026
  470/TA...

• Practical Guide to Documentary Collections – BAFT/ICC/TTP

  15/07/2026
  Documentary collections, governed by URC 522, occupy a middle ground between open account trading and documentary credits, offering a structured mechanism for the exchange of documents without creating a bank payment undertaking...

• UK–Japan Digital Trade

  08/07/2026
  For decades, trade finance has been characterised by a strange contradiction...

• Digital trade - ICC/DSI guide for policymakers and practitioners

  01/07/2026
  Digital trade will not move at scale until the law moves with it...

• eUCP – the time is now

  24/06/2026
  Looking forensically at the adoption of the eUCP rules, the problem is not with awareness, nor even capability...

• China – Maritime Code

  17/06/2026
  There is a tendency, when developments like this emerge, to frame them as another step in the gradual digitalisation of trade...

• eUCP Version 2.0 to eUCP Version 2.1

  12/06/2026
  The publication of the aligned eRules as eUCP Version 2...