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Sanctions Update
31/01/2019
Sanctions are trade controls that can be (and are) imposed by the United Nations, the EU Council, or individual countries, for political or economic reasons...
A wider look at sustainability
22/01/2019
In a previous blog we reported on the ICC Commission on Environment and Energy issuance of a Policy Statement on ‘Sustainability Reporting - Future Directions' in December 2015, and the more recent establishment, by the ICC Banking Commission, of a Sustainable Trade Finance Working Group that serves to introduce standards and certifications for the industry...
Re-visiting discrepancies
14/01/2019
In documentary credit operations, the advising of discrepancies in documents is probably the most contentious issue that a bank will face with its clients or another bank...