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BIS gold swaps rose in August along with double counting and seizure concerns
Submitted by admin on Wed, 2026-09-09 16:50 Section: Documentation7:55p ET Wednesday, September 9, 2026
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
GATA's consultant about the Bank for International Settlements, Robert Lambourne, reports today that the bank's gold swaps are not going away -- that the bank's August statement of account, published this week --
https://www.bis.org/publications/statement-account-31-august-2026.pdf
-- indicates that its gold swaps increased by 10 tonnes during the month and now stand at 141 tonnes.
Robert Lambourne: Are BIS swaps being used to hide double-counting of ETF gold?
Submitted by admin on Thu, 2026-08-13 12:39 Section: DocumentationJuly's BIS gold swaps fell 13 tonnes from June's and now stand at 131 tonnes.
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12:36p ET Thursday, August 13, 2026
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
GATA's consultant on the Bank for International Settlements, Robert Lambourne, reports today that the bank's monthly statement for July was published this week --
https://www.bis.org/publications/statement-account-31-july-2026.pdf
BIS gold swaps fell slightly in June but remain in rising trend
Submitted by admin on Thu, 2026-07-09 18:54 Section: Documentation6:45p ET Thursday, July 9, 2026
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Gold swaps undertaken by the Bank for International Settlements fell slightly in June, from 146 to 144 tonnes, GATA consultant Robert Lambourne reported today after the bank's statement of account for June was published:
Robert Lambourne: BIS annual report does extra fudging about gold
Submitted by admin on Sat, 2026-07-04 15:53 Section: Documentation3:50p ET Saturday, July 4, 2026
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
The 2025-26 annual report of the Bank for International Settlements, the central bank of the central banks, was published a week ago --
BIS gold swaps rise as the metal's price falls
Submitted by admin on Tue, 2026-06-09 21:57 Section: Documentation9:53p ET Tuesday, June 9, 2026
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
As gold prices keep falling, gold swaps arranged by the Bank for International Settlements on behalf of its member central banks keep rising.
Drawing on the bank's monthly statement for May --
Robert Lambourne: BIS gold swaps totals soared in March before dropping in April
Submitted by admin on Thu, 2026-06-04 13:47 Section: DocumentationBy Robert Lambourne
Thursday, June 4, 2026
Gold swaps undertaken by the Bank for International Settlements on behalf of its member central banks are estimated to have increased strongly in March, up 77 tonnes, rising from 104 tonnes to 181 tonnes, before falling by 47 tonnes to 134 tonnes in April.
This is still a notable increase from the swaps estimated at the end of last year, 56 tonnes.
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Gold swapped by BIS fell slightly in February to 104 tonnes from 106 in January
Submitted by admin on Sat, 2026-03-07 08:21 Section: Documentation8:21a ET Saturday, March 7, 2026
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Gold swaps undertaken by the Bank for International Settlements on behalf of its member central banks fell slightly in February to 104 tonnes from 106 tonnes in January, GATA's consultant on the BIS, Robert Lambourne, reported Friday.
Lambourne estimates the swaps from the bank's monthly statements of account, and the February statement was published last week:
BIS gold swaps nearly doubled in January amid growing turmoil in market
Submitted by admin on Sun, 2026-02-15 11:51 Section: Documentation11:49a ET Sunday, February 15, 2026
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
After a year of remaining steady at a low level, the gold swaps undertaken by the Bank for International Settlements nearly doubled in January amid growing turmoil in the gold market, from 56 tonnes in December to 106 tonnes, according to GATA's consultant on the BIS, Robert Lambourne.
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BIS continues as facilitator of surreptitious intervention against gold
Submitted by admin on Tue, 2026-02-03 20:15 Section: Documentation8:13p ET Tuesday, February 3, 2026
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Following what seems like the attempt on January 29 by the U.S. government, supported by the Federal Reserve and major investment banks, to enable large short positions in gold futures and especially silver futures to be more easily covered on the New York Commodities Exchange, it should be emphasized again that since 2009 the most contemporaneous proof of surreptitious central bank intervention in the gold market has come from the use of gold swaps arranged by the Bank for International Settlements.
Robert Lambourne: Has UK gold account's belated report told the whole story?
Submitted by admin on Sun, 2025-12-14 13:55 Section: DocumentationBy Robert Lambourne
Sunday, December 14, 2025
The annual report of the UK Exchange Equalisation Account for the year to March 31, 2025, was published late last week --
-- more than eight months since the end of the year it covers and much later than its typical publication date in July.
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