Trade Treasury & Payments

Baldev Bhinder talks to the Trade Treasury & Payments team on the sidelines of ITFA about the obscure URC 522 Rules relating to documents sent by traders to their importers via their collections bank. What is the banks obligations, what happens if it releases the documents without payment and where is your recourse if that happens?

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