Press releases

The World Gold Council, the market development organisation for the gold industry, has appointed Emmy Kondo to fulfil a strategic business development role within the jewellery team. Emmy will be focusing her attention on the online community LoveGold, which is approaching half a million followers and on jewellery market development across the world. Based in Chicago, Emmy will report to Sally Morrison, Managing Director, Jewellery.

The World Gold Council, the market development organisation for the gold industry, today convened a roundtable debate to discuss how to modernise the London Gold Fix.

At the annual London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) Bullion Market Forum held for the first time in Singapore today, Mr Lim Hng Kiang, Minister for Trade and Industry, announced a new exchange-traded Singapore Kilobar Gold Contract[1] (“Contract”). This is the first wholesale 25 kilobar gold contract to be offered globally.

The most liquid of all ‘liquid alts’, one of a series of papers published today by the World Gold Council, highlights how gold exhibits the characteristics of liquid alternatives (or ‘liquid alts’) without many of the inherent disadvantages associated with this growing sector.