Banks can only buy gold in 99.9% hallmarked bars. Miners with in-house refining operations have pricing power regardless of ...

By combining material-level authentication, biometric human identity, and operational supply-chain controls, the initiative aims to demonstrate how next-generation physical-to-digital infrastructure ...

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK / ACCESS Newswire / December 22, 2025 / For years, transparency in the global gold market advanced in theory faster than in practice. Standards evolved. Guidance tightened. And ...

Some of the most widely used types of gold bars would be subject to U.S. tariffs, customs agency officials ruled, a particular blow to Switzerland’s large gold refining industry. By Liz Alderman and ...

The first casualty of a hefty 39-percent tariff on Swiss imports into the United States may be gold refining, after it emerged that certain gold bars could face the levy. The price of gold on the US ...

December 23, 2025 / For much of the modern gold trade, trust has been delegated to individual companies. Refiners certified their suppliers. Traders vouched for counterparties. Documentation followed ...

The first casualty of the imposition of a hefty 39-percent tariff on Swiss imports into the United States may be gold refining after it emerged certain gold bars would face the levy. The Barron's news ...

Many were baffled when Donald Trump slapped a steep 39% tariff on imports from Switzerland. The Swiss aren't known for flooding the US with cheap goods, but their outsize role in gold refining is ...

Bullion exports to the US from Europe’s main refining hub in Switzerland plummeted in August, after a shock ruling that temporarily imposed tariffs on gold bars. The bullion market was thrown into ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Swiss gold refiner Valcambi has lost a contract to refine around 4 million ounces of gold a year from Newmont Mining Corp, one of the world's biggest producers, five sources ...

Switzerland is proposing that its gold industry builds a refinery in the US or increases its processing capacity there as part of a plan to reduce US trade tariffs, according to two people familiar ...

For centuries, gold's value rested on weight, purity, and trust. In modern markets, those attributes are no longer sufficient on their own. Gold is increasingly being treated not just as a commodity, ...