22.08.2014 - Is the LBMA Silver Price more transparent than the Fix? Not yet!
So now we have had three days of the new LBMA Silver Price – the new name for the London Silver Fixing given that the term ‘Fix’ is somewhat discredited in modern-day parlance. The banks involved in the old system, which had fallen to two, wanted to withdraw from it, in part because they felt the process, even if it was a totally honest system, which it probably was, could lay them open to having to defend expensive, and probably spurious, lawsuits and the London Bullion Market Association took upon itself to go out and set up some kind of new silver benchmarking process at very short notice. And is this new process any more transparent than the old one – one of the main charges laid against the old Silver fixing process. The answer so far is probably not!..............................................Full Article: Source
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