Christopher Hare is the Travers Smith Associate Professor of Corporate and Commercial Law, Oxford University and a Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford. He has degrees from Cambridge, Oxford and Harvard Law School and, after a short period practising as a barrister from 3 Verulam Buildings, he held teaching posts at Jesus College, Cambridge University and the University of Auckland, New Zealand.Dora Neo is the founding Director of the Centre for Banking & Finance Law (CBFL) and an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore (NUS). She teaches and publishes in the areas of banking and finance, contract law, and international economic law. She is a graduate of Oxford and Harvard universities.

• Part 1: LEGAL AND PRACTICAL CHALLENGES TO TRADITIONAL TRADE FINANCE 1: The UCP Regime: Past, Present, and Future 2: The Letter of Credit as a Contract 3: Soft clauses in letters of credit 4: Perspectives on the Role of the Nominated Bank in a Letter of Credit 5: Determining a Complying Presentation in Letter of Credit Transactions: a Principled Appraisal of Current Requirements and Challenges 6: The Fraud Rule in the Law of Letters of Credit Revisited 7: Letters of Credit and Stop Payment Orders Made in the Issuer's Country 8: Independent Guarantees in International Trade Part II: TRADE FINANCE TECHNOLOGY 9: The Electronic Bill of Exchange and its Use in International Trade 10: Digitalisation of Shipping and Insurance Documents: Implications for Trade Finance 11: Implementation and Implications of the UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records in Trade Finance 12: Will Trade Finance be Transformed by Blockchain? Part III: INNOVATION AND TRADE FINANCE CHALLENGERS 13: The Bank Payment Obligation as a Signal Step in the Evolution of Digital Trade Finance 14: Open Account, Prepayment, and Supply Chain Financing 15: Innovation and Islamic Trade Finance 16: Countertrade as Finance

Christopher Hare is the Travers Smith Associate Professor of Corporate and Commercial Law, Oxford University and a Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford. He has degrees from Cambridge, Oxford and Harvard Law School and, after a short period practising as a barrister from 3 Verulam Buildings, he held teaching posts at Jesus College, Cambridge University and the University of Auckland, New Zealand.Dora Neo is the founding Director of the Centre for Banking & Finance Law (CBFL) and an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore (NUS). She teaches and publishes in the areas of banking and finance, contract law, and international economic law. She is a graduate of Oxford and Harvard universities.

• Part 1: LEGAL AND PRACTICAL CHALLENGES TO TRADITIONAL TRADE FINANCE 1: The UCP Regime: Past, Present, and Future 2: The Letter of Credit as a Contract 3: Soft clauses in letters of credit 4: Perspectives on the Role of the Nominated Bank in a Letter of Credit 5: Determining a Complying Presentation in Letter of Credit Transactions: a Principled Appraisal of Current Requirements and Challenges 6: The Fraud Rule in the Law of Letters of Credit Revisited 7: Letters of Credit and Stop Payment Orders Made in the Issuer's Country 8: Independent Guarantees in International Trade Part II: TRADE FINANCE TECHNOLOGY 9: The Electronic Bill of Exchange and its Use in International Trade 10: Digitalisation of Shipping and Insurance Documents: Implications for Trade Finance 11: Implementation and Implications of the UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records in Trade Finance 12: Will Trade Finance be Transformed by Blockchain? Part III: INNOVATION AND TRADE FINANCE CHALLENGERS 13: The Bank Payment Obligation as a Signal Step in the Evolution of Digital Trade Finance 14: Open Account, Prepayment, and Supply Chain Financing 15: Innovation and Islamic Trade Finance 16: Countertrade as Finance

Christopher Hare is the Travers Smith Associate Professor of Corporate and Commercial Law, Oxford University and a Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford. He has degrees from Cambridge, Oxford and Harvard Law School and, after a short period practising as a barrister from 3 Verulam Buildings, he held teaching posts at Jesus College, Cambridge University and the University of Auckland, New Zealand.Dora Neo is the founding Director of the Centre for Banking & Finance Law (CBFL) and an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore (NUS). She teaches and publishes in the areas of banking and finance, contract law, and international economic law. She is a graduate of Oxford and Harvard universities.

• Part 1: LEGAL AND PRACTICAL CHALLENGES TO TRADITIONAL TRADE FINANCE 1: The UCP Regime: Past, Present, and Future 2: The Letter of Credit as a Contract 3: Soft clauses in letters of credit 4: Perspectives on the Role of the Nominated Bank in a Letter of Credit 5: Determining a Complying Presentation in Letter of Credit Transactions: a Principled Appraisal of Current Requirements and Challenges 6: The Fraud Rule in the Law of Letters of Credit Revisited 7: Letters of Credit and Stop Payment Orders Made in the Issuer's Country 8: Independent Guarantees in International Trade Part II: TRADE FINANCE TECHNOLOGY 9: The Electronic Bill of Exchange and its Use in International Trade 10: Digitalisation of Shipping and Insurance Documents: Implications for Trade Finance 11: Implementation and Implications of the UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records in Trade Finance 12: Will Trade Finance be Transformed by Blockchain? Part III: INNOVATION AND TRADE FINANCE CHALLENGERS 13: The Bank Payment Obligation as a Signal Step in the Evolution of Digital Trade Finance 14: Open Account, Prepayment, and Supply Chain Financing 15: Innovation and Islamic Trade Finance 16: Countertrade as Finance