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24 November 2026
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What the banks and corporates behind the latest digital eUCP presentations got right
The eUCP rules have existed since 2002. Now the deals do too. For two decades, letters of credit have had a rulebook for electronic presentation and almost no transactions to show for it. Documents still get printed, couriered, checked and couriered again, often after the goods have arrived.
That changed in the past 12 months. Yapı Kredi completed Türkiye's first fully digital LC presentation. Societe Generale closed one of the first fully digital LCs between the UK and France. Commerzbank completed a UK–Germany LC under eUCP, with every document moving digitally instead of by courier. Lloyds, a leader in digital trade, has been supporting them all.
Each deal used digital originals. It passed from exporter to banks to importer inside digital envelopes with all supporting docs, so there was nothing to print, scan or courier, and no closed platform to join.
In this edition of the Digital Trade Playbook, we hear from the people who did it. We'll cover what changed in their operations, what surprised them, and what has to happen next for e-presentation to become routine.
The panel
Every speaker on this panel has completed live digital LC transactions. This is a practitioner session, not theory. Moderated by Merisa Lee Gimpel, Digital Trade Works, host of the Digital Trade Playbook series.
Angela Koll – Director, Senior Business Expert for Trade Finance, Commerzbank
Angela Koll has worked in Trade Finance at Commerzbank since 1990, across roles spanning operational processing, sales strategy and product management. Since 2010 she has focused on the digitalisation of Trade Finance, and she currently chairs an ICC working group on the practical application of eUCP and eURC. She has supported early pilot transactions involving digital trade document presentation, and since 2023 has led Guarantee Vault, Commerzbank's multi-guarantor platform.
Christer Norén – Solution Sales, Trade Finance, Swedbank
Christer Norén leads Solution Sales for Trade Finance at Swedbank, which he joined in 2024 after 16 years at Handelsbanken in trade finance product and business development. He has worked across the full trade finance lifecycle, from export LC advising and document checking to global product strategy. In 2025, he helped lead Swedbank's first fully digital guarantee transactions in the Nordics and continues to drive the bank's push toward digital LC presentation.
Christian Cazenove – Managing Director, Group Head of Trade Oversight & Advocacy, Société Générale
Christian Cazenove is Group Head of Trade Oversight & Advocacy at Société Générale and an Associate Professor at AEI-IS UPEC Paris. With nearly four decades of banking experience in France and abroad, he leads the group's Trade Finance governance and advocacy efforts, represents Société Générale within the ICC, and serves as a DOCDEX expert. He is active in regulatory advocacy on prudential treatment of Trade Finance, including under CRR3, and has co-authored several trade finance publications, including the practical guide Documentary Credits, Standby Letters of Credit, Sureties and Guarantees (Revue Banque Edition).
James Mortimer – Managing Director, Head of Corporate Sales, Transaction Banking Solutions, Lloyds
James Mortimer is an experienced corporate banking leader with more than 25 years across corporate coverage and transaction banking. He spent two decades at HSBC, latterly as Head of Corporate Banking, UK, before joining Lloyds in September 2025 as Head of Corporate Sales for Transaction Banking Solutions, where he partners across Coverage and Product to deliver cash management, payments, trade and working capital solutions for clients.
What you’ll take away:
- How live digital LC presentations under eUCP and MLETR worked in practice, from exporter to banks to importer
- What changes operationally when every document moves inside a digital envelope instead of by courier
- What surprised the teams at Commerzbank, Lloyds, Societe Generale and Swedbank who ran these deals
- What still has to happen for digital e-presentation to become routine, not a one-off