Captive/self-insurance.
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Relegating letters of credit to the dustbin: credit insurance and advanced financing are gaining wider favor in global trade, and sound risk management practices are finding favor with U.S. exporters. Banks and underwriters are cheering because the trend increases lending capacity and enhances an underused asset class.
Overt lack of trust is no way to start any relationship, but that is exactly how international markets are coming to view traditional letters of credit (LC). Once the sine que non of international trade, the LC has largely been supplemented and even replaced in Europe by trade credit...

Prime time for recycling.
Byline: Sherri Buri McDonald The Register-Guard Bulk Handling Systems, a local manufacturer of equipment that sorts the contents of recycling bins, has tripled its sales in the past three years. And more growth appears to be on the way now that the company has secured...

New payment world; a manager's guide to creating an efficient payment process.
9780470120545 New payment world; a manager's guide to creating an efficient payment process. Schaeffer, Mary S. John Wiley & Sons 2007 192 pages $45.00 Hardcover HG1710 Consultant Schaeffer exposes this and...

American icons.
Liberty and Freedom: A Visual History of America's Founding Ideas, by David Hackett Fischer (Oxford, 864 pp., $50) ABY WARBURG, scion of a Hamburg banking family, had no interest in ledgers or letters of credit; he had, however, a passion for books and pictures. He resigned his...

Farmers allowed anew to import rice.
Byline: MELODY M. AGUIBA The National Food Authority has opened importation up to April 31 of 75,000 metric tons (MT) of rice under the Farmers as Importers Program (FIP) out of a total of 200,000 MT to be imported by the private sector. NFA Administrator...

Prolonged log ban hurts local furniture makers.
Byline: BERNIE CAHILES-MAGKILAT The Philippine Exports Confederation Inc. (Philexport) has warned government that a prolonged nationwide total log ban will cause a drastic increase in the prices of raw materials causing local furniture industries to continue losing out to cheaper, mass produced imported furniture. In...

Coconut export, rubber deals seen in Hu's visit.
Byline: MELODY M. AGUIBA Chinese President Hu Jintaos visit to the Philippines in April is anticipated to cement multi-million dollar coconut export contracts to China and possibly rubber growing agreements in Mindanao. Agriculture Secretary Arthur C. Yap said Chinese companies are interested in the production...

Lina hopes to collect P151-B BoC revenues.
Byline: BENG ANSULA Bureau of Customs (BoC) Commissioner Alberto Lina expressed optimism yesterday that the agency will meet its assigned collection target of P151.1 billion this year as banks yesterday began accepting payments of duties and taxes. Lina hailed the banks decision to extend their...

Surety: the end of a shrinking trend: future brightens for remaining serf-insured companies.
Self-insured buyers of surety securities, faced with shrinking capacity in the bond market, face a world with fewer insurance options yet are being forced to post more collateral, according to surety market experts. Some companies are having to post bonds, or letters of credit, of more than...