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Benefits of ICC membership for financial services firms , insurance
companies and banks
Information
The ICC is a key source of information on regulatory and technical
developments in financial services world-wide:
- Letters of credit : The ICC is the author of the Uniform Customs
and Practice for Documentary Credit, supplemented with books , pamphlets,
seminars and lectures.
- ICC Publishing has recently added a regular newsletter on documentary
credits, Documentary Credits Insight, to track the latest letter of
credit developments.
- Demand guarantees, performance bonds and surety bonds: The ICC is
the author of rules covering the full range of international security
instruments.
- International aspects of payments systems ;An international working
group meets regularly to track developments in payment systems. It
is also developing a directory of policy making institutions in this
area as well as standard glossary of payment systems terminology.
- Cross border institutional fund management: The ICC has developed
a study of the principal regulatory constraints on international portfolio
management
- International netting agreements ; The ICC is studying ways of establishing
a sufficiently solid legal and contractual framework to enable parties
to reduce counterpart risk in financial instruments by netting replacement
values.
- ICC Uniform Rules for Collections and Bank-to-Bank Reimbursements:
standard rules for banking practice.
- Environmental Liability and insurance : The ICC closely monitors
the development of insurance /environment legislation, issuing papers
on topics such as the US superfund re-authorisation debate.
Professional training and business contracts:
The ICC provides an excellent forum for meeting specialists and experts
in a particular area of interest , and for developing professional
skills and contracts. Top names in the financial services industry
are regularly invited to Commission meetings, keeping members in touch
with legislative developments.
ICC Commissions and working parties
ICC Commissions are international committees of top business, legal
and academic professionals. They provides an unparalleled opportunity
for obtaining information directly from specialists in crucial areas
of Legislation.
The ICC has two policy commissions in the financial services sector,
on Financial Services and Insurance, and Banking Technique and Practice.
ICC working parties provide a valuable learning experience for participants,
and are used by firms as part of personnel development plans. Members
of working parties participate in small, international groups to accomplish
a specific legal , policy or technical objective. ICC working party
participants obtain insights and information from an international
cross-section of colleagues.
Lobbying and policy development
The ICC is one of the worlds foremost business lobbying institutions.
By associating your organisations legislative efforts with the ICC
's you gain a powerful ally and the added weight of an established
international body.
- The ICC has official consultative status with the UN and UN specialist
agencies dealing with economic , financial and trade issues. Regular
meetings are organised with UN officials dealing with trade and economic
issues
- maintain a close working relationship with the world trade organisation
(WTO)
- Briefs the host government leader at annual G8 summit meetings on
the most pressing concerns of the global business community
- Prepares position statements to lobby the European Commission and
the European Parliament
- Meets regularly with top officials at the World Bank and International
Monetary Fund to discuss issues of common concern
ICC publishing SA The ICC's own publishing house issues many titles
of direct interest to the financial services sector. All currant ICC
publications are available from ICC United Kingdom. |
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United Kingdom
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020 7838 9363
Fax: 020 7235 5447
Email: katharinededezade@iccorg.co.uk |
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