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4 results for “counterparty risk” in Markets
Markets · 20 June 2026
Bring It Home: Central Banks and the Great Gold Repatriation
…ntury it was rational to store your gold in someone else's basement. Then the calculus of counterparty risk changed, and reserve managers started chartering aircraft. · Overseas custody was a Cold War convenience: gold near a trading centre could be mobilised quickly. · Repatriat…
Ingrid Sørensen · 13 min read
Markets · 8 August 2026
Moving Bullion: The Logistics Nobody Prices
…ghly the cost of closing the gap. · Is stored gold insured? Professional vaults carry all-risks cover, but the terms matter more than the headline. Read for the per-location limit, whether cover applies in transit and at rest, what exclusions apply for war and confiscation, and w…
Ingrid Sørensen · 17 min read
Markets · 6 August 2026
Why Central Banks Started Buying Gold Again
…nencumbered share of reserves. · Gold's appeal to a reserve manager is that it carries no counterparty: it cannot be frozen by the issuer of another country's liability. · Central banks are price-insensitive, slow buyers; their flow sets a floor far more often than it sets a head…
Ingrid Sørensen · 17 min read
Markets · 2 August 2026
Who Actually Sets the Gold Price
…— it is telling you that physical metal cannot travel, not that the market has mispriced risk. · Does the Shanghai premium mean the price is wrong? No. It means the cost of getting an internationally accepted bar into a market with import licensing, a domestic exchange and its o…
Ingrid Sørensen · 15 min read
