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• ISBP 821 – next steps

  15/04/2026
  If UCP 600 is the foundation, then ISBP 821 is where the real work happens...

• UCP 600 – next steps

  15/04/2026
  There is something quietly reassuring about the continued resilience of UCP 600...

• Documentary Credits and the illusion of certainty - resolving the real problem

  13/04/2026
  There is a certain assurance that sits at the centre of documentary credits...

• 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...