For years, transparency in the global gold market advanced in theory faster than in practice. Standards evolved. Guidance ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

SMX (SMX)announced a joint initiative with FinGo and Bougainville Refinery to evaluate a combined technology framework for authenticating the gold ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Trump administration ruling that gold bars will be subject to tariffs stunned traders who had assumed they would be exempted, throwing bullion markets into turmoil. Futures in New York, which are ...

Government, through the Mines Department, has spelled out how gold should be legally bought, traded, imported, and exported ...