what banks were short on silver
Public reporting in early 2026 points to a mix of confirmed and alleged bullion‑bank short positions in : mainstream pieces and market data identify large bank exposure on and OTC markets (including ,...
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Public reporting in early 2026 points to a mix of confirmed and alleged bullion‑bank short positions in : mainstream pieces and market data identify large bank exposure on and OTC markets (including ,...
A true physical silver shortage is signalled when multiple market layers—futures distortions (backwardation), spiking lease rates, collapsing inventories across major hubs, and sustained regional prem...
Court filings unsealed in late 2025 show Jeffrey Epstein maintained accounts at multiple major banks, with documents specifically naming Goldman Sachs and HSBC’s private bank in Switzerland as institu...
Available reporting shows multiple strands of evidence that link Jeffrey Epstein to potentially illicit financial activity: bank suspicious-activity reports (SARs) flagging more than $1 billion in tra...
Available reporting shows Jeffrey Epstein’s financial business concentrated on a small number of extremely wealthy clients—most prominently Leslie Wexner and Leon Black—while banking relationships wit...
Court filings and newly unsealed documents identify multiple large banks tied to accounts or suspicious transactions linked to Jeffrey Epstein, most prominently JPMorgan Chase (which filed Suspicious ...
The world’s biggest banks are led by a mix of long-tenured CEOs and boards oriented around national champions — China’s state-linked “Big Four” sit at the top by assets, while U.S. giants dominate mar...
Jeffrey Epstein and his associates used a complex mix of offshore shell companies, trusts, nominee directors, and multiple banks to obscure where money came from and who controlled assets—PR investiga...
Forbes and reporting summarized in Wikipedia say the majority of fees Epstein collected from 1999–2018 came from two billionaires: Leslie Wexner (~$200 million) and Leon Black (~$170 million), with ot...
Analyst consensus and mainstream bank forecasts in the sources cluster silver’s likely near-term path in the mid‑$30s to mid‑$50s per ounce, not in three‑ or four‑figure territory; HSBC raised its 202...
UK banks and asset managers have been linked to very large “financed emissions” — a WWF/Greenpeace analysis found investments by 15 banks and 10 asset managers generated about 805 million tonnes CO2e ...
UK banks’ financed emissions have been estimated at around 805 million tonnes CO2e per year — almost double the UK’s domestic annual emissions — based on a WWF/Greenpeace analysis of 15 banks and 10 a...
Major banks and asset managers have moved from pilots into live tokenization activity on the (XRPL), with projects reported from , , (pilot stage), as custodian, and in fund pilots, and partnering wit...
There is no clear, documented market—at least in the reporting provided—showing established international lenders offering loans explicitly backed by intellectual property (IP) to finance oil producti...
Since 2023, central banks and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) have run a small but consequential set of pilots to test “quantum‑safe” payments, most notably the BIS Innovation Hub’s Proje...
Mainstream, independent reporting since 2024 treats “quantum” as an emerging technical risk and opportunity for finance—centred on post‑quantum cryptography, pilot projects and regulatory roadmaps fro...
Gold futures face a wide set of price targets for 2026 as major banks and analysts diverge between roughly $4,400 and $6,000 an ounce, with consensus clustering in the $4,400–$5,000 range; short-term ...
Multiple professional forecasts flag a mix of slower-than-normal GDP growth, persistently above-target inflation and a softer labour market as risks to Americans’ living standards in 2026: RBC warns o...
UK banks and asset managers have been linked to financed emissions larger than the UK’s territorial emissions in past NGO analyses, and recent 2024–2025 reporting and studies show continuing concern a...
Available reporting and public documents show multiple lawsuits and investigations alleging that banks and some bank employees flagged or failed to stop suspicious transactions tied to Jeffrey Epstein...