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The demand guarantee bridges the "gap of distrust" that exists between the parties. When the bank issues the demand guarantee, the beneficiary deals with a party whose financial strength he can trust and a party which would pay upon first demand regardless of an existing dispute between the parties on the performance of the underlying contract. [5]
Standby letter of credit (SBLC): Operates like a commercial letter of credit, except that typically it is retained as a standby instead of being the intended payment mechanism. In other words, this is an LC which is intended to provide a source of payment in the event of non-performance of contract.
The latest (July 2007) revision of UCP is the sixth revision of the rules since they were first promulgated in 1933. It replaced UCP 500, [3] and was the outcome of more than three years of work by the ICC's Commission on Banking Technique and Practice.
In addition, the Institute publishes the monthly journal, Documentary Credit World (DCW), successor to Letter of Credit Update, and a series of books including the Annual Surveys of Letter of Credit Law & Practice (gathering together all LC related articles and abstracting legal opinions in the English language), the 20th Century Survey of LC ...
(The Center Square) – Whether Illinois should be enjoined from enforcing the state’s gun and magazine ban starting Monday is now up to a federal appeals court. Illinois enacted the Protect ...
Illinois Bureau of Criminal Investigations; Capital Development Board; Illinois Civil Service Commission; Illinois Commerce Commission; Illinois Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability; Illinois Commission on Volunteerism and Community Service; Illinois Community and Residential Services Authority; Illinois Community College Board
Civil rights attorney Ben Crump announced he has filed a $100 million lawsuit against multiple government and law enforcement agencies for an alleged conspiracy that led to the 1965 assassination ...
The basic subdivisions of Illinois are the 102 counties. [2] Illinois has more units of local government than any other state—over 8,000 in all. [3] The Constitution of 1970 created, for the first time in Illinois, a type of "home rule", which allows localities to govern themselves to a certain extent. [4]