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A letter of credit (LC), also known as a documentary credit or bankers commercial credit, or letter of undertaking (LoU), is a payment mechanism used in international trade to provide an economic guarantee from a creditworthy bank to an exporter of goods. Letters of credit are used extensively in the financing of international trade, when the ...
Such confirmation is called an acceptance — the drawee accepts the order to pay as legitimate. The drawee stamps ACCEPTED on the draft and is thereafter obligated to make the specified payment when it is due. If the drawee is a bank, the acceptance is called a banker's acceptance. Bankers acceptances are considered eligible collateral under ...
The bank "accepts" bills of exchange drawn on the bank by the debtor, discounts them and agrees to pay for them when they mature. There are two types of acceptance credit, confirmed and unconfirmed. Unconfirmed acceptance credit means that the buyer takes the risk that payment will not be made, due to any number of contingencies such as ...
A POF is commonly used when commencing a commercial transactions between parties who do not know each other. The purchaser's bank produces evidence in a standard format that their client is good for a transaction up to the value of xx, based on yy item etc. Usually, such letters have to be produced/verified/confirmed by a class A international bank, as local banks may not have the status ...
BIC – Bank identifier code; bldg. – Building; BLS – Balance sheet; BOM – Bill of materials; BPO – Business process outsourcing; BPR – Brief project report; BPV – Bank payment voucher; BRD – Business requirements document; BRU – Business recovery unit; BRV – Bank receipt voucher; BTW – By the way; B2B – Business-to ...
Cheque clearing (or check clearing in American English) or bank clearance is the process of moving cash (or its equivalent) from the bank on which a cheque is drawn to the bank in which it was deposited, usually accompanied by the movement of the cheque to the paying bank, either in the traditional physical paper form or digitally under a cheque truncation system.
A decrease to the bank's liability account is a debit. From the bank's point of view, when a credit card is used to pay a merchant, the payment causes an increase in the amount of money the bank is owed by the cardholder. From the bank's point of view, your credit card account is the bank's asset. An increase to the bank's asset account is a debit.
Banks and financial institutions offer the following products and services in their trade finance branches. Letter of credit: It is an undertaking/promise given by a Bank/Financial Institution on behalf of the Buyer/Importer to the Seller/Exporter, that, if the Seller/Exporter presents the complying documents to the Buyer's designated Bank/Financial Institution as specified by the Buyer ...