Every share in gold is supposed to represent a certain amount of physical gold in
storage, and be available on demand.
But that’s not what happened when a customer asked for their gold at
Deutsche Bank, the largest German bank participating in the gold exchange;
instead, the bank officially refused physical delivery of gold
after a request, stating a vague change in “business policy.”
Is the real reason that such a request was refused that a surge of investors
seeking a safe haven during a period of currency collapse has strained the
bank’s meager deposits, and they don’t want to admit how short the position
is?
There isn’t nearly enough gold and silver to meet the obligations of
everyone holding shares in these important commodities; banks lend out and
leverage gold just as they do with other deposits.
If enough people demand physical possession at one time, the bank or
institution could be caught with its pants down, and it is possible that this
is a case of avoiding that position by simply refusing to even meet that
demand.
Via RT:
Clients of Germany’s biggest bank who have invested in the
exchange-traded commodity Xetra-Gold are facing problems when they want to
obtain physical gold, according to German analytic website Godmode-Trader.de.
Xetra-Gold is a bond on the Deutsche Börse commodities market, and
Deutsche Bank is a designated sponsor. On the website, Xetra-Gold
says its clients have the right for physical delivery of gold.
“Physically backed: The issuer uses the
proceeds from the issue of Xetra-Gold to purchase gold. The
physical gold is held in custody for the issuer in the
Frankfurt vaults of Clearstream Banking AG, a wholly-owned subsidiary of
Deutsche Börse. In order to facilitate the delivery of physical gold, the
issuer holds a further limited amount of gold on an unallocated weight
account with Umicore AG & Co.,” says Xetra-Gold.
However, despite claims that every virtual gram of gold is backed
by the same amount of physical gold, clients have been refused the precious
metal upon demand.
According to Godmode
Trader, its reader “sought physical delivery of his holdings of
Xetra-Gold. For this he approached, as instructed by the German Börse
document, his principal bank, Deutsche Bank.” However, he was told that “the
service” was no longer available for “reasons of business policy“.
The article went on to say it’s not yet clear whether other banks are still
delivering gold through Xetra.
Xetra-Gold says its holdings amount to over 85 tons of gold. “At
the same time, the number of deliveries of physical gold has risen to nearly
900, at a total volume of over 4 tons”, and the assets it
manages reach €3.5 billion.
This plays into reports that claim that there is a physical shortage of
gold (and silver) and that demands for physical delivery will
force major banks and depositories to admit what is an ultimately unavoidable
fact: that they are long on promises, and short on deposits.
If banks don’t have the deposits to hand over upon request, it amounts to
fraud, and the system is full of enough fraud to collapse on its own weight.
Someday, this will all come to a head, as economic experts have often
pointed out:
Paul Craig Roberts Warns US
is Completely Busted, Non Delivery of Gold Crash the System 2016
Similar pressures have been put on the Federal Reserve at the
international level, as countries, ironically including Germany, have
demanded physical repatriation of their gold.
As SHTF previously reported:
Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and numerous other countries in
Latin America and the Middle East are all demanding the return of their gold.
Which countries will be left holding the bag? And which countries will be at
the mercy of the accepted value of the offered reserve currency, perhaps in
the form an SDR?:
The German’s are demanding that the U.S. return all of the 374
tons of gold held by the Bank of France, and 300 tons of the 1500 tons of
bullion held by the New York Federal Reserve.
[…]
German repatriation has taken much longer than anticipated… the
Fed calmly says they are accommodating their request at a reasonable pace.
The whole system is a fraud, and the facade is starting to crack. If/when
the paper money ignites, there will be nothing like holding onto the real
thing.
That’s why it may be a wise choice to physically hold gold,
and store it in secure locations that you can actually access.
Read more:
The Ultimate Call: Will Federal Reserve Be Caught Without
Gold in ‘Repatriation Rush’?
The Yuan Ascends to World Reserve Status: “Dollar System
Being Done Away With”
Billionaire George Soros Dumps 37% of Stocks To “Buy Up
Massive Amounts of Gold” But Why?
