Expert Commentaries
eLearning Benefits for Companies

eLearning Benefits for Companies

|Thomas Smith
In many cases, the biggest dilemma facing a company considering employing e-Learning as a tool to train staff is how to justify the cost of such an approach.Within the context...
The “fraud exception” and the L/C independence principle

The “fraud exception” and the L/C independence principle

|Export Academy Faculty
The “fraud exception” and the L/C independence principle As L/C practitioners know, the documentary credit is a bank’s undertaking to pay against presentation of documents which comply with the terms...
Perhaps it’s time for a URC 522 revision

Perhaps it’s time for a URC 522 revision

|Export Academy Faculty
One of the most valuable activities of the ICC Banking Commission is, without any doubt, the constant updating of the International Rules that they issue to govern various aspects of international trade. ...
Benefits & risks for banks in Supply Chain Finance

Benefits & risks for banks in Supply Chain Finance

|Export Academy Faculty
I have a Labrador dog, Andy whose breed originated in Greenland. I buy its food online in a store located in Germany whose product of Canadian origin is delivered directly to...
India – An Emerging Tiger

India – An Emerging Tiger

|Export Academy Faculty
Interest in India has never been greater. Here CP Balachandran, one of the subcontinent’s most respected trade finance bankers, offers precious insights into this complex, multifaceted land, which despite its...
MathsatSea.com : a new and exciting e-learning tool for nautical Maths

MathsatSea.com : a new and exciting e-learning tool for nautical Maths

|Export Academy Faculty
Many young people embark upon a career at sea ill-equipped to cope with the academic rigours awaiting them at nautical college, especially in terms of tackling the level and type...
Internet Trading and Documentary Credits

Internet Trading and Documentary Credits

|Export Academy Faculty
– a stumbling block, a challenge or an opportunity?Serious exporters, large and small offering product to international markets have developed sophisticated straight through export processing systems. Everything from order receipt,...
Does UCP600 really encourage the nominated bank to provide finance to the beneficiary?

Does UCP600 really encourage the nominated bank to provide finance to the beneficiary?

|Export Academy Faculty
UCP600 has been in force near five years. When it has been published, many experts or banking practitioners believe that one of the main difference between UCP500 and UCP600 lies...
“Trade, not aid”

“Trade, not aid”

|Export Academy Faculty
Decades ago, with that scream a group of small farmers claimed to the UNCTAD congress that the international community should open her eyes and perceive the damage caused by its...
Shipping: playing a vital role in the export cycle.

Shipping: playing a vital role in the export cycle.

|Export Academy Faculty
April/May 2010 will be remembered by millions of people for the disruption to travel aroundEurope following the persistent ash cloud from the Icelandic Eyjafjallajoekull volcano. News reports tended to focus on...
eLearning Benefits for Companies

eLearning Benefits for Companies

|Thomas Smith
In many cases, the biggest dilemma facing a company considering employing e-Learning as a tool to train staff is how to justify the cost of such an approach.Within the context...