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After a 2-year pilot project in which the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) and the World Gold Council (WGC) collaborated on a gold bar integrity program called the Gold Bar Integrity Database (GBI), aXedras, one of two distributed ledger companies that was involved with the pilot, has been chosen as the official service provider. The GBI will further perpetuate transparency and integrity within the world’s global gold value and supply chains.

Bad actors, greedy opportunists and even outright fraudsters have long been endemic to the retail gold market - they are probably as old as the market itself. This is precisely why we have warned our clients and readers so many times against these dangers, why we routinely alert them to countless different threats and traps, and why our most oft-cited piece of advice tends to be “if it sounds too good to be true, it most probably is”.

The shift we saw over the past couple of years has been a historic one and its implications are sure to be far-reaching and long lasting. After over a decade of monetary easing and ultra-low interest rates, a policy direction that came to a crescendo during the pandemic, inflation finally and inevitably reared its ugly head.

The hard work that the team at aXedras, the youngest member of our BFI Capital Group, has been putting in behind the scenes with the...

In this Fireside Conversation, Frank R. Suess sits down with Christoph Wild, president of the ASFCMP (in English, the Swiss Association...

BFI Bullion celebrates its 15th anniversary on August 20th, which evoked a bit of nostalgia and stirred an urge to look back at our...