
Why the Letter of Credit will survive trade digitization
Inability of various technology platforms to communicate with each other securely and lack of scale are obstacles to greater digitization, say bankers.

A letter of credit (LC), the instrument of finance that has been at the center of cross-border trade for more than a century, isn’t going anywhere in a hurry despite the feverish pace of digitization under way in the world of trade finance.
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