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Kim Christensen


 

 
Name

Kim Christensen

Position

Head of Trade Products & Business Relations, Nordea

Contact Info

Postal Address:
Nordea Trade Finance, PO Box 850, DK-0900 Copenhagen C

Visiting address:
Nordea, Strandgade 3, Copenhagen

E-mail:
kim.christensen@nordea.com
 

 

 

Personal details:
Born: 1967
Children: 1 girl (2000) 1 boy (2003)
   
Hobbies: Road Running (best marathon time: 3:16:53 - Copenhagen, 2002)

Carl Barks (the great Duck Artist)

Literature and music

   
Background:
Schools:
  • Business College
 
  • Holder of a Diploma in Specialized Business Studies: Transport
   

Commercial education:

Freight Forwarder

   
Current position:

Employer:

Nordea
   

Title:

  • Head of Trade Products & Business Relations
  • Vice President
   

Responsibility:

Interpretation of rules and regulations regarding documentary credits and collections for the entire Nordea Group

   

Training Experience:

Nordea (internal)

In-house trainer; e.g. Trade Finance School and internal ISBP/UCP 600 seminars

Nordea (external)

Seminars for customers, banks, organisations; e.g. on ISBP, UCP and transport versus LCs

   
Other

Business Academy West http://www.bawest.dk/
Regular teacher on their International payments classes since 2003

   
  Ad Hoc presentations and seminars
   
International Magazines / publications:

LC Views

Editor
LC Monitor Contributing Editor

Co-Editor LC Monitor newsletter "Trade Services Update"

   
Other Articles and comments to other magazines e.g DCInsight, Trade & Forfaiting Review, Global Trade Review (GTR) and DC World
   
DC-Pro Have provided expert commentaries to their 2003 and 2005 “LC Market Intelligence Survey.

Propvided expert view article "Two industries separated by common documents!"

   
Memberships:
ICC
  • ICC Commission on Banking Technique and Practice
  • Chairman of ICC Denmark Trade Finance Forum
IIBLP
  • Charter Member at the European Advisory Council of the International Institute for Banking Law and Practice, USA.
ISO
  • Member of Trade Service SEG (Standards Evaluation Group)

References:

Publications:
 
2003
 
Jan/march
2003
Will the eUCP help electronic trade Grow up? DCInsight
Volume 9 No. 1
 
April 2003 Back to the future
 
Trade & Forfaiting Review
Volume 6 Issue 6
 
March/April2003 The Gordian knot - an eTrade Finance tale
 
LC Monitor
Volume 5, Issue 2
 
May 2003 DC-Pro LC Survey 2003
On behalf on ICC, DC Pro have made a survey on Trade Finance. Kim Christensen Comments on the Technology section (Expert Comment)
 
DC Pro Survey
Released 2003
April/June 2003 How does man handle the Responsibilities imposed by life? LC Monitor
Volume 5, Issue 3
 
 
2004
 
January/February 2004 Discrepancy fee or not to be LC Monitor
Volume 6, Issue 1
 
March/April 2004 What time is it? LC Monitor
Volume 6, Issue 2
 
May/June 2004 A bill of lading is a bill of lading is a bill of lading LC Monitor
Volume 6, Issue 3
 
November 2004 Negotiation - the lifeblood of banking? LC Monitor
Volume 6, Issue 3
 
November/December 2004 Negotiation East -v- West
Kim Christensen moderates a debate on negotiation. Jeremy Smith, T.O. Lee, Ravi Mehta, Soh Chee Seng, Ole Malmqvist, Neal S. Millard, Hoi Ching Chea, Rolf Andersen and Heinz Hertl participate presenting views from East and West.
 
LCMonitor
Volume 6, Issue 6
 
2005
 
January/March 2005 Reasonable Refusals DCInsight
Volume 11, No. 1
 
March 2005 LC VIEWS on learning lessons from the daily LC routine of LC specialist LC View
Newsletter 3
 
January/ February 2005 Clause me out LCMonitor
Volume 7, Issue 1
 
March/April 2005 A Touch of Realism
 
LC Monitor
Volume 7, Issue 2
 
July 2005 ON LC SURVEY SEMINAR LC Views
Newsletter 12, July 2005
 
May/June 2005 THE ‘BOOTLEG’ DECISION PAPER ON DOCUMENTS ISSUED BY FREIGHT FORWARDERS FOR PRESENTATION UNDER DOCUMENTARY CREDITS
 
LC Monitor
Volume 7, Issue 3
July/September 2005 End the fuss about transport documents issued by forwarders  DCInsight
Volume 11, No. 3
 
September 2005 SUCCESS IN EXPORT: A TRADE FINANCE BANKER'S PRACTICAL TIPS LC Views
Vol. 2 / No. 9
 
August 2005 DC-Pro LC Survey 2005
Expert Commentary on "Rules and Practice"
DC-Pro
LC Market Intelligence Survey
 
July/August 2005 What did you learn in school today? LC Monitor
Volume 7, Issue 4
 
September/ October 2005 The Transit Clause LC Monitor
Volume 7 / Issue 5
 
November/December
2005
Whose side is time on? LC Monitor
Vol. 7 / Issue 6
 
December 2005
(28 December 2005)
On the Raviization of the LC World
Interview with Mr. Ravi Mehta
www.lcviews.com
 
2006    
 
January 2006 Red Flagged LC:
Exporters, Be Aware and Beware
LC Views
Newsletter no. 35
 
January 2006 Trade Finance - et hovedelement i risikostrategien
Printed in "Mere lønsom Eksport" published by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark. Written together with Kim Nielsen.
 
Mere Lønsom Eksport
January 2006 Looking back to look ahead
Interview with Mr. Reinhard Längerich
 
www.lcviews.com
January 2006 MMTD under the magnifying glass DCInsigt volume 12 No. 1
January-march 2006
 
April 2006 LC LITIGATION: TRENDS AND TENDENCIES LC VIEWS
Vol. 3 - No. 4
 
March 2006 THE STORY OF THE WORLD’S MOST INFLUENTIAL LC SPECIALIST: Kim Christensen
e-book by Ravi Mehta published on/by www.lcviews.com
 
www.lcviews.com
March 2006 UCP Revision: Address and transport
Interview with Mr. Heinz Hertl
 
www.lcviews.com
January/February 2006 The UCP -v- ISBP LC Monitor
Vol. 8 / Issue 1
 
March/April 2006 The Lego LC GTR - Global Trade Review
Vol 4 /Issue 4
 
March 2006 The Shower Cabin injunction: A colourful story, but does the LC Instrument prevail? DC World
Volume 10, Number 3
 
April 2006 The Danish DC-Club
Interviev with Mr. Rolf Felber
 
www.lcviews.com
May 2006 New Chinese LC Rules
Interview with Jia Hao
 
www.lcviews.com
March/April 2006 The Invisible Article LC Monitor
Vol. 8 / Issue 2
 
June 2006 Kim's Mixed Reaction to UCP Draft LC VIEWS
Newsletter No. 49
 
May 2006 NORDIC LC BUSINESS  
Focus on Finland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark
 
www.lcviews.com
June 2006 BANKING COMMISSION MEETING: WHETHER HELPER OR KILLER - IT DEPENDS ON YOU LC VIEWS
Newsletter No. 51
+ on lcviews.com
May 2006 The historic court cases that affected rules and customs, practices and practioners
 
www.lcviews.com
July 2006 eUCP: Will it take off? LC VIEWS
Newsletter No. 52
 
June 2006 UCP IN WONDERLAND
Article 24 as Kim Revises in Dream
 
www.lcviews.com
June 2006 Tour de Saudi Arabia
Interview with Abdulkader Bazara
 
www.lcviews.com
May/June 2006 Even if the Rules Were Perfect LC Monitor
Vol. 8 / Issue 3
 
July 2006 UCP revision - the last six miles  DCInsigt volume 12 No. 1
January-march 2006
 
aug-06 Discrepancies exposed
(by air or by sea)
LC Monitor
Vol. 8 / Issue 4
 
nov-06 ICC Should be eudcationist - not cashier LC VIEWS
Newsletter No. 69
+ lcviews.com
 
September/October 2006 91 to 0 THE LC IS AIMING FOR NEW HORIZONS LC Monitor
Vol. 8 / Issue 5
 
September/October 2006 Discrepancies exposed
(Small wordings big problems)
LC Monitor
Vol. 8 / Issue 5
 
dec-06 UCP 600 is made by bankers-is it helpful to traders?  LC VIEWS
Newsletter No. 75
+ lcviews.com
 
dec-06 Impact of UCP 600 on Banking Practice
 Does it make bankers more responsible?
LC VIEWS
Newsletter No. 85
 
dec-06 New UCP on Invoice and Insurance
The Kim Checklists
LC VIEWS
Newsletter No. 86
 
dec-06 Morphology of  Transport Documents Articles LC VIEWS
Newsletter No. 87
 
jan-06 New UCP on Transferable Credits
Window-dressing or Remodeling?
LC VIEWS
Newsletter No. 92
 
November/
December 2006
The Volume
By: Kim Christensen, Nordea, Denmark
Daniel Devahive, UBS AG, Switzerland.
 
LC Monitor
Vol. 8 / Issue 6
November/
December 2006
Discrepancies exposed
Kim Christensen presents a variety of cases that do not increase the trust in LCs.
 
LC Monitor
Vol. 8 / Issue 6
 
2007    
 
January 07  UCP AS A BANKER'S BOSS
 
By Ravi Mehta and Kim Christensen
LC VIEWS
Newsletter No. 103
 
January - March 2007 Needed: a lobby for good banking practice  DCInsight Vol. 13 No.1
 
January 07 Prepare for the UCP 600
Written together with Fredrik Lundberg
 
Nordea.com
Marts 07 Discrepancies exposed
Kim Christensen presents a variety of cases that do not increase the trust in LCs.
 
LC Monitor
Vol. 9 / Issue 1
Marts 07 LOSS IN THE LC WORLD: RAVI MEHTA 1945-2007 LC Monitor
Vol. 9 / Issue 1
 
April/june 2007 A practical approach to the new UCP DCInsight Vol. 13 No.2
 
May 2007 Two industries separated by common documents!
DC-Pro expert view
 
DC-Pro
April-June 2007 Discrepancies exposed
Kim Christensen presents a variety of cases that do not increase the trust in LCs.
 
LC Monitor
Vol. 9 / Issue 2
April-June 2007 UCP 600: Five minutes to implementation LC Monitor
Vol. 9 / Issue 2
 
July/August 2007 THE LOGIC OF UCP LOGIC:
A TRIVIAL CASE OF A “MASTER AIR WAYBILL”
DCW
Volume 11, Number 7
 
July/September 2007 The unfair Yes-vote LC Monitor
Volume 9, issue 3
 
July/September 2007 Discrepancies exposed
In this edition of Discrepancies Exposed, LCMs kim Christensen presents three cases linked in some way to the new version of the UCP - UCP 600
 
LC Monitor
Volume 9, issue 3
September 2007 Sheilar from China versus Kim from Denmark lcviews.com
 
October 2007 The Power of arguments
 
lcviews.com
November 2007 Comments to “Commentary on UCP 600”
 
lcviews.com
November 2007 Article by article
 
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October/December 2007 Discrepancies exposed
In this edition of Discrepancies Exposed, LCM’s Kim Christensen takes apart wording of a complicated LC issued by a bank in Pakistan; showing a simpler way how the same LC could have been worded.
LC Monitor
Volume 9, issue 4
 
2008    
 
January 08 Remburs anno 2008
 
Århus Havn
January 08 Romania Mania - Interview with Mr. Bogdan Ilie
 
lcviews.com
January 08 UCP 600 Exclusions in perspective
 
lcviews.com
January 08 The anatomy og "shipment" in L/C transactions DCInsight
Vol 14, no 1
January 08 Historic court cases revisited
 
lcviews.com
March 08 Coming full circle lcviews.com
April 08 The infamous from and to fields LC monitor
Vol 10/Issue 1
April 08 Included in the ICC Book “Insights into UCP 600 – Collected Articles from DCI 2003 – 2008” edited by Ron Katz with the following 3 articles:
  • UCP Revision: the last six miles
    Orginally published in DCInsight vol. 12 No. 1
     
  • A Practical approach to the new UCP
    Orginally published in DCInsight Vol. 13 No.2

     
  • The anatomy of “shipment” in L/C transactions
    Orginally published in DCInsight Vol 14, no 1

 

Insights into UCP 600 – Collected Articles from DCI 2003 – 2008

ICC Publication No. 682

May 08 Ban Ve Van De Giao Hand Trong Cac Giao Dich Thu Tin Dung

"The Anatomy of Shipment" (Vietnamese version), which was published in Banking Review (State Bank of Vietnam) No. 10 May 2008.

Translated by Nguyen Huu Duc

(Orginally published in DCInsight Vol 14, no 1)

 

Banking Review (State Bank of Vietnam) No. 10 May 2008
August 08 A happy birthday for UCP 600? GTR - vol 6/Issue 6
August 08 UCP 600- Year one - A happy birthday? lcviews.com

 

 


 

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