Year-to-date, the National Bank of Poland (95t) continues to be the largest reported official sector gold buyer, almost double the purchases of the next largest buyer, Kazakhstan (49t) (Chart 3).

Consumer banking is a changing industry. Decades of consolidation have reduced the total number of banks available to consumers, although the number of bank branches has not decreased at nearly the ...

Central banks were back in buying mode in May – and with a little more spring in their step. Much of the activity was driven by Poland (18t) and China (10t), with Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan also ...