Trade Finance Insight: September 2025 Edition

In the September 2025 edition of Trade Finance Insight, we are excited to bring you a fascinating selection of articles and resources that are sure to stimulate your thoughts and conversations. These include the following: 1. The continuing inviolability of standby letters of credit 2. Changes to the UK Arbitration Act – Governing law of arbitration clauses 3. A problem with the bill? Law Commission Consultation Paper on digital assets and (electronic) trade documents in private international law 4. BAFT Master Trade Loan Agreement moves with the times View or download Trade Finance Insight: September 2025 Edition here: https://lnkd.in/eiT-Rnhc

In the September 2025 edition of Trade Finance Insight, we are excited to bring you a fascinating selection of articles and resources that are sure to stimulate your thoughts and conversations. These include the following: 1. The continuing inviolability of standby letters of credit 2. Changes to the UK Arbitration Act – Governing law of arbitration clauses 3. A problem with the bill? Law Commission Consultation Paper on digital assets and (electronic) trade documents in private international law 4. BAFT Master Trade Loan Agreement moves with the times View or download Trade Finance Insight: September 2025 Edition here: https://lnkd.in/d7UntjTJ

🎬 ICC Austria Talks Trade Finance – Episode 5 Legal and Jurisdictional Implications of Digital Trade Finance Jurisdiction may sound dry, but when digitalisation meets international law, things get fascinating fast. 🌍 For this episode, I sat down with my fellow ICC Legal Committee member and friend, Lorna K. Strong of Strong Consulting and Associate Programme Director at the London School of Economics explore how the fragmented implementation of the UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records (MLETR) can expose digital trade transactions to multiple, sometimes conflicting jurisdictions or what legal interoperability really means. Lorna and I also recently co-hosted a webinar on Legal and Risk Issues in Demand Guarantees and Standby Letters of Credit with 60 participants from 30 countries and, by popular demand, we’ve added a new date in March 2026 👉 https://lnkd.in/dhcu_DTw 🎥 Watch the full conversation free of charge here: https://lnkd.in/dVfrZY9R 🔗 Save the date: Trade Finance Week 2026: 8-12 June, Vienna International Chamber of Commerce Trade Treasury Payments (TTP) UNCITRAL: United Nations Commission on International Trade Law #weareICC #iccATtfw

This week, the Centre for Research in Commercial and Corporate Laws (CRCCL) brings you key terms from the Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999 (FEMA)- a vital framework that regulates foreign exchange transactions and promotes orderly development of India’s external trade and payments. The FEMA plays a pivotal role in facilitating smooth cross-border financial operations, balancing the nation’s economic growth with regulatory compliance. It bridges India’s domestic financial system with the global economy, ensuring transparency and stability in international monetary dealings. Through our Weekly Corporate Dictionary Series, we simplify complex corporate concepts into clear, practical insights - helping students and professionals strengthen their understanding of commercial and corporate law step by step. Stay tuned every week as we continue decoding the essentials of corporate and commercial laws! Follow CRCCL for more updates and learning in Corporate and Commercial Laws. #CRCCL #WeeklyCorporateDictionary #FEMA1999 #ForeignExchange #CorporateLaw #CommercialLaw #LawStudents #LegalResearch #DBRANLU

Despite being a relatively new organization, it has a highly experienced staff with both academic and bureaucratic expertise, marvas legal has provided consultancy services to the World Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), UNIDROIT, the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) and has ensured the successful completion of important projects in the field of digitalization of Turkish trade and law. #digital #trade #complience #alignment #international #electronic #signature #model #law #transferable #document #modern #secured #transactions #control

🎬 ICC Austria Talks Trade Finance – Episode 5 Legal and Jurisdictional Implications of Digital Trade Finance In today’s digital trade landscape, questions of jurisdiction and applicable law are taking on new dimensions. As countries move at different speeds in implementing the UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records (#MLETR), businesses and banks must navigate not only traditional legal boundaries but also varying levels of recognition for digital documents. To explore how these shifts affect the enforceability of trade finance instruments, Eleonore Juliane Treu sat down with Lorna Strong of Strong Consulting and Associate Programme Director at the The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Both are long-standing members of the ICC Legal Committee, chaired by Georges Affaki. Lorna and Eleonore recently co-hosted a successful webinar on Legal and Risk Issues in #DemandGuarantees and #StandbyLettersofCredit, welcoming more than 60 participants from 30 countries. 📅 Due to popular demand, a new date for this webinar has been set for March 2026 — for more info and registration: https://lnkd.in/dYy2JEvt In this new free of charge interview they discuss: • Why clear jurisdiction clauses matter • How legal interoperability under MLETR impacts digital trade finance • Practical ways to navigate complex, cross-border legal risks Watch the full conversation here 👉 https://lnkd.in/dHsMw434 🔗 Learn more about ICC Austria Trade Finance Week 2025: www.tradefinanceweek.org 🔗Learn more about the ICC Banking Commission Legal Committee: https://lnkd.in/dd6KNSQS International Chamber of Commerce, Trade Treasury Payments (TTP) UNCITRAL: United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, #weareICC #iccATtfw Deepesh Patel, tomasch kubiak, Andrew Wilson, Luca Castellani

The full impact of trade disruption is yet to be felt, but businesses are reviewing what changing tariff regimes mean for their contracts and commercial partnerships, say our arbitration experts. Read our latest insight here: https://lnkd.in/ehy6J3Zf #Tariffs #Disputes #Arbitration #Trade

Thinking About Cross-Border Deals The moment a deal crosses a border, everything changes. I have been reading about how commercial transactions shift once multiple jurisdictions are involved, such as having different tax rules, compliance standards, currencies, and timelines. It is fascinating how much strategy goes into simply making the deal work across systems. I am starting to see why international work demands not just legal knowledge, but coordination, patience, and perspective. #CrossBorderDeals #CorporateLaw #InternationalBusiness #CommercialLaw #Learning

As an academic and tax practitioner who has bought and (most importantly) read cover to cover these transfer pricing textbooks (with blue covers) edited by the prolific team at the Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law, I recommend that every one who loves transfer pricing, especially practitioners, should (1) buy/ access the whole set and (2) read them. Another good one in my basket list.

🎓 Next up at the LawFin Research Seminar: Our current Fellow Edoardo Martino (Universiteit van Amsterdam) will present his paper “A Market for Limes: The Information View on Green Banking Regulation,” co-authored with Katarzyna Parchimowicz (Uniwersytet Wrocławski). The paper discusses how information asymmetries affect the effectiveness of green banking policies – offering new insights at the crossroads of sustainability and finance. 📅 Monday, October 27 👉 Join on-site or online: https://lnkd.in/dEvprdC9 #Law #Finance #ResearchSeminar #GreenFinance #Sustainability #BankingRegulation