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8 results for “Minamata Convention” in Markets
Markets · 11 September 2026
The Last Audit: What We Actually Know About the World's Official Gold
…bars, in foreign custodians whose word substitutes for an owner's eyes, and in reporting conventions that allow a tonne out on loan to count the same as a tonne on the shelf. · To understand the audit gap you first have to understand what a reported reserve figure actually is, b…
Ingrid Sørensen · 22 min read
Markets · 2 August 2026
Who Actually Sets the Gold Price
…in a specific place, in a specific form of the metal, under a specific set of settlement conventions — and if you change any one of those variables the number changes with it. · The number almost always means this: an ounce of gold, of Good Delivery quality, held unallocated in…
Ingrid Sørensen · 16 min read
Markets · 17 August 2026
Paper Gold: What You Own When You Do Not Own Bars
…st be immediate and in equal measure to avoid riba, which historically excluded gold from conventional deferred-settlement trading for observant investors. The AAOIFI Shariah Standard on Gold, published in 2016, resolved this for the modern market by defining conditions under whi…
Ingrid Sørensen · 23 min read
Markets · 20 June 2026
Bring It Home: Central Banks and the Great Gold Repatriation
…t has not kept pace with metallurgical standards. Bars cast decades ago under older assay conventions sometimes fall outside current minimum fineness or dimensional tolerances, or their documentation trail has gaps that a modern auditor will not accept. Rather than argue the poin…
Ingrid Sørensen · 14 min read
Markets · 8 August 2026
Moving Bullion: The Logistics Nobody Prices
…eclared origin cannot be verified to a regulator's satisfaction. · This risk sits outside conventional specie insurance, which covers physical loss and damage but routinely excludes government action, confiscation and sanctions-driven freezes. Large holders manage it the way they…
Ingrid Sørensen · 15 min read
Markets · 8 September 2026
The Real-Rate Trade: Why Gold Moves When Bond Yields Do
For two decades the gold price could be read off an inflation-linked bond screen. Then, somewhere after 2022, the relationship stopped behaving — and the argument about why has become the most consequ…
Ingrid Sørensen · 25 min read
Markets · 18 August 2026
The Vault Beneath the City
Beneath the Bank of England and beneath lower Manhattan sit two of the largest concentrations of monetary gold on earth, moved between anonymous compartments by a handful of porters who never touch th…
Ingrid Sørensen · 22 min read
Markets · 6 August 2026
Why Central Banks Started Buying Gold Again
For three decades official institutions were net sellers of bullion, and the policy consensus treated the metal as a museum piece. Then, quietly, the world's reserve managers reversed. The reasons are…
Ingrid Sørensen · 14 min read
