Issued at London Established 2003 Custody & Carriage
Metal you can point at.
Not a balance.
We vault bullion and move it across borders by air and sea.
A cast bar going onto the shelf, by hand and by serial number.
Every figure sits on a scale
Each piece we hold is recorded as itself: serial number, refiner, fineness, gross and fine weight, and the vault it sits in. What you own is a list of bars, not a figure on a screen.
The same applies to the price. The strip above is the last reading our feed returned, stamped with the time it was taken, and drawn below against its own range.
$4,456.40per troy ounce
Reading taken 29 Aug 2026, 14:53 London · source gold-api.
What we do
Six services, quoted and documented separately. Custody and carriage are run by the same people, so nothing is handed to a stranger halfway through the journey.
Safe keeping
Vault custodyTreasury-grade vaults under continuous multi-layer security. Gold, silver, platinum, coin, jewellery, stones and documents. Basic and premium grades in central business districts.
Air freight
Worldwide, by airChargeable weight by the greater of actual and volumetric. Repacking to air cargo standard, agents for clearance and delivery at the far end, hazardous goods declared in advance.
Sea freight
Full and part loadsShared and dedicated containers, 20ft to 40ft high cube. Charged by weight or cubic measure, whichever is greater, within the 23,000 kg UK road limit.
Packing
Export packingHand-loaded, case by case. Fragile goods wrapped and topped out, strapped, corner-bound where it earns it, then shrink-wrapped opaque and palletised for fork handling.
Imports
Customs clearanceClearance inbound from ports worldwide against the air waybill or bill of lading, commercial invoice and packing list. Duty and VAT payable by the importer.
Tracking
Status and milestonesEvery consignment carries a reference from booking to delivery, with each milestone dated, located and entered by a named operator.
What is on the record
A custodian is worth exactly what it can evidence. These are the fields we publish. The ones we cannot yet fill are left blank rather than filled in.
144 Houndsditch
London EC3A 7BX
United Kingdom
2003
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A blank above is a field awaiting documentary evidence. Ask us for any of them and we will send the certificate rather than a claim.
Open an account
Storage accounts open after identity checks and a written mandate setting out storage type, fee basis and withdrawal instructions. Freight bookings need no account.