Paper market manipulattion and Basel 3

Some of you into Crypto trading may find interesting how things have evolved in precious meals price manipulation and how "Kinesis" bullion backed crypto currency with the 2021 June implementation of Basel 3 regulations will change the game
2018 Andrew Maguire talks Gold, Silver and Kinesis with Bart Chilton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ5wpWkdpjw
May 2021
Andrew Maguire says LBMA is breaking, silver and gold preparing to liftoff with Basel III
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19uWKq_Gw54
kinesis andrew maguire from the vault episode 37
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFWna9qBvPk

This article delves into the consequences of the NSFR leading to the end of the London forward markets in gold and silver. Replacement demand for physical metal appears bound to rise, and an assessment is therefore made of available gold not tied up in jewellery and industrial uses. An analysis of gold leasing by central banks, leading to double ownership of physical gold, is included.

The conclusion is that unless the BIS has an ulterior motive to trigger a chaotic financial reset of some sort, it is a case of regulators not understanding the market consequences of their actions.
Introduction
Last week I explained why as they stand the new Basel 3 regulations will make it uneconomic for banks to continue to run bullion trading desks. The introduction of the net stable funding requirement (NSFR) means that mainland European banks, of which ten are LBMA members including the Swiss, will have to comply with the new regulations from the end of June, and all UK banks, in effect the entire banking membership of the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) will have to comply by the year-end. There are 43 LBMA members listed as banks, and on Comex there are currently 17 with long and 27 with short positions in the Swaps category, which represent bullion bank trading desks in the dominant futures contracts. So being similar, the Comex numbers must broadly replicate those operating in London. It is therefore reasonable to assume that if the LBMA’s banking membership ceases dealings in unallocated bullion, then very few will continue to deal on Comex — the LBMA crowd having ceased taking trading positions.

We are discussing not gold or silver but their derivatives. But there is a problem borne out of the LBMA’s insistence that it involves bullion, albeit unallocated, and not derivatives. The distinction could be important, depending on how the UK regulator applies the NSFR rules. This is because in the calculation of required stable funding, gold consumes 85% of available stable funding while gold liabilities contribute no available stable funding at all. The effect is to impart a negative factor into a bank’s overall net stable funding calculation, making unallocated gold trading hopelessly uneconomic in terms of deployment of total funding capital. The alternative, which does not appear to be under the LBMA’s consideration, is to admit that the whole unallocated gold trading business has nothing to do with gold bullion but is in fact gold derivatives; in which case capital funding penalties under the NSFR would be broadly limited to imbalances between derivative liabilities and derivative assets.

Consequently, it appears that an allocation backstop of 85% of available stable funding (ASF) must be swallowed in the case of gold, which does not appear to be the case if the LBMA confesses to the paper charade.
https://www.goldmoney.com/research/goldmoney-insights/the-end-of-paper-gold-and-silver-markets

This week, Andrew Maguire targets the crucial stairsteps for gold and silver amidst the current volatile mix of a strong dollar and rising bond yields, and offers a marketwide update heading into a fast-closing Basel III window.
The precious metals expert breaks down the CME’s seemingly counterintuitive decision to reduce margins into a rising gold price, and shares price expectations for gold and silver ahead of next week’s BIS options expiry.
Turning to the silver squeeze, the long-time wholesaler runs through the knock-on effect of Reddit -driven physical silver demand forcing discipline on the 500-1 leveraged paper markets!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9uMmBnyZKo