Institute of International Banking Law & Practice
Each year DCW releases quarterly LC statistics, showing letter of credit activity for nearly 700 US banks and Non-US Banks with domestic branches.
Using these statistics, we've put together a series of graphics depicting the Top 10 banks in...
Looking Back: DCW's Trade Finance Headlines from 2018Since 1996, Documentary Credit World has had it's finger on the pulse of the LC industry, producing monthly issues featuring news, articles, statistics, and more. Each year, DCW Executive Editor Christopher Byrnes pulls together his picks for the...
In its July 2019 report “on the assessment of the risk of money laundering and terrorist financing affecting the internal market and relating to cross-border activities”, the European Commission identified 47 products and services as potentially vulnerable to money laundering or terrorist financing. Of seven products and services added to...
For the 13th consecutive year, the Institute of International Banking Law & Practice conducted its one-day Guarantee & Standby Forum in Singapore. This Executive Summary provides an overview of topics discussed and debated by leading...
The dates and details are in for much of IIBLP's 2019 calendar of events. As ever, we will be in multiple countries this year working to bring together local and global thought leaders in commercial and standby letters of credit and trade finance. Mark your calendar now,... 
Have commercial credits become so burdensome and unwieldy that a trimmed down version of the rules governing their practice could streamline the LC process? Could simplified rules and practices perhaps even spark increased use of this traditional (some...
A present-day USD 1.5 trillion global trade finance gap projected to widen to USD 2.4 trillion by 2025 can be narrowed by USD 1.1 trillion through use of blockchain and other distributed...