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• Basel Committee issue updated guidelines on AML and Financing of Terrorism

  19/02/2016
  The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has updated its guideline document 'Sound management of risks related to money laundering and financing of terrorism'...

• USA to ratify UN Convention on Independent Guarantees and Standby Letters of Credit?

  13/02/2016
  In a message to the US Senate, the office of the President of the United States has recommended that the USA ratify the UN Convention on Independent Guarantees and Standby Letters of Credit...

• CDCS Examination 8 April (9 April for those in China, Hong Kong, Indonesia and South Korea)

  09/02/2016
  Are you planning on sitting the CDCS examination this April? Still concerned about some aspects of documentary credit handling? Want to receive some additional training and take a multiple-choice assessment to gauge your learning to date? If you answer ‘yes' to these questions, then look no further than our on-line training modules that take you through the subject matter covered by each of the 25 chapters of the syllabus book ‘Guide to Documentary Credits, 5th Edition'...

• United Arab Emirates and Qatar drive RMB adoption in the Middle East

  07/02/2016
  SWIFT's RMB tracker shows that the RMB is now the most active currency used by the UAE and Qatar for direct payments to China and Hong Kong...

• Winter 2015-2016 Newsletter now available

  06/02/2016
  Members will find the latest newsletter (Volume VIII) in the Member Trade Information section of the website...

• Letters of Credit and the Blockchain

  01/02/2016
  Global supply chains use a fundamentally broken system that locks up many hundreds of billions of dollars within a complex milieu of intermediaries and financiers...

• National Bank of Egypt issues LCs to the value of US$2.5billion from November 2015 - January 2016

  01/02/2016
  Egypt's biggest lender, the state-owned National Bank of Egypt (NBE), provided more than $2...