The Committee evaluated the impact of its regulatory regimes on trade finance for low income countries. For those countries, confirmed letters of credit are of specific importance. Confirmed letters of credit provide exporters with additional protection against any losses incurred from importers’ and issuing banks’ failure to meet their obligations of payments. A typical example is the export of goods to a low-income country which in almost all cases requires a confirmed letter of credit since the exporter generally will not rely only on the creditworthiness of the importer and its bank. While waiving the one-year maturity floor also.
