Top-Up Gold Premiums added on Gold Spot Price The following article informs about added gold premiums on the gold spot price and the influential factors. The gold spot market, depending on supply and demand and with continuous gold price changes is open 24 hours worldwide except weekends....

Gold supply chain flexibility amongst interruption The gold supply chain précised into bars and coins in various countries is distributed worldwide. This geographical dissemination leads to stability and demand satisfaction. However, COVID-19 pandemic has caused remarkable interruption to...

New in Cyprus: The Mini Manager Licence for AIF Management A new law has been adopted by the Cyprus Parliament on Small Alternative Investment Fund Managers, also called “Mini Manager”, on 20 June 2020, in line with the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive 2011/61/ EU or AIFMD EU....

Physical Gold Storage – How? “Unallocated”, “allocated”, “segregated”, or “allocated and segregated”. These terms describe the type of storage and the legal relation the gold owner has to their purchased gold. It is therefore important to know the differences in order to purchase your gold...

Overseas Gold Repository Third-party vault companies are the only safe solution for asset protection overseas! Since August 2018 the demand for physical gold is surely increasing with private and institutional investors as well as with Central Banks due to the constantly increasing uncertainty...

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We are proud to announce that our clients are some of the most substantial gemstones investors of Europe and the Middle East who trust us to assure their priceless family jewelleries partly consisting of precious pieces owned since generations. With our state-of-art private vaults in...

Hong Kong, June, 2020 – Award winning investment firm Eliseo Partners (Asia) Limited named best institutional debt trading firm in Australia & New Zealand at the Global Banking and Finance Awards in 2017 is acquired by QMIS Financial Group. Eliseo Partners managed over $1.7 billion of...

Gold is indeed not a new investment class, being used to store wealth since 4000 years. However, holding physical gold substantially increased its importance during the last decades. Our “modern” economies lost all and any inhibition to accumulate debts, finding the solution in transferring the...

2020 could be the year for the price action of Gold due to the recent upturn! The US/Iran conflict where the metal acts as a hedge against geopolitical risk and negative interest rates are main supporter of gold prices. Furthermore, does it appear that China’s expansion into Eurasia pushes...

“Unallocated”, “allocated”, “segregated”, or “allocated and segregated”. These terms describe the type of storage and the legal relation the gold owner has to their purchased gold. It is therefore important to know the differences in order to purchase your gold through the correct channel...

Earlier this year, Lloyd's of London, the specialist insurance market, issued a warning to a number of its marine syndicates, including those that underwrite superyacht businesses. The warning gave loss-making marine syndicates three months to create viable business plans or be dropped -...

France, Germany and the UK are seeking to establish a payment channel to bypass the new US sanctions against Iran in order to enable trading between European and Iranian businesses in key sectors, specifically oil industry. According to Heiko Maas, German Foreign Minister, European officials...

Despite its challenges, Iran is an interesting country to invest in with lots of opportunities and market chances locally and in the region. There are many areas in services and production that are far from saturation. Especially smaller foreign investors continue profitable operations in Iran....

The Central Bank of Iran (CBI) set up a secondary market for foreign exchange due to a major change in Iran’s foreign exchange policy which resulted reduction in the availability of foreign currency and the volume of foreign exchange transactions. According to Valiollah Seif, Governor of the...

Cyprus residence and work permits – Companies with Foreign Interest Cyprus companies with non-EU shareholders that provided a paid-up capital of the company of minimum EUR 171.000 can employ up to 15 non-EU persons in upper and middle management positions, with residence and work permits issued...

VAT Interpretative Circular 222 – Holding Companies On 9 January 2018, the Interpretative Circular 222 has been announced by the Cyprus Tax Department explaining the VAT treatment of holding companies. The Circular provides guidance on the interaction between holding companies and VAT based...

The new Cyprus Law regulating Alternative Investment Funds, approved by the parliament on 10 July 2018, provides for so-called Registered Alternative Investment Funds (RAIF), which will not be regulated by the Cyprus Security and Exchange Commission (CySEC). The new Law regulating Alternative...

The purchasing power of physical gold and silver – hedging inflation and economic risks Physical gold and silver are one of the most preferred ways to protect wealth in the long term. As physical gold and silver are outperforming any currency in the long run, they are one of the best solutions...

The double taxation avoidance treaty between Cyprus and Luxembourg which was signed on 8 May 2017 in Nicosia, has entered into force on 21 of May 2018 with the application of its provisions starting 1 January 2019 aiming to expand trade and economic relations between the two countries. This...