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Bullion World | Volume 2 | Issue 08 | August 2022

           When we talk about the regulatory
           framework, we have one of the
           strongest compliances you can
           see in the whole precious metals
           industry. You will be amazed to see
           our due diligence in account opening
           and transaction monitoring. Recently
           we had audits for RJC and UAE
           good delivery, and let me tell you,
           both the auditors were amazed by
           the kind of systems we have created
           because of years and years of hard
           work.


           Systems are not created in one
           day. You create a vision, and it’s a
           process. It has taken many years to
           develop, but we are very confident in   Coming to the refinery aspect, what   We will have the full range of
           our developed systems. At the same   is your capacity and do you have any   services from logistics to refining to
           time, we are looking to improve every  visions to scale up your capacity in   hedging.
           day regarding compliance. The best   the existing ecosystem?
           part about it is that the support we   Mr Ahmad: Sam Precious Metals,   What’s your take on IGC?
           get from the management, from the   in the year 2018, started the   Mr Sadi: It’s a great event. I
           chairman to the general manager to   refinery with an 11,000 square-foot   congratulate the organisers for
           the deputy general manager, it is an   warehouse where our capacity   having such a well-organised and
           absolute freehand that we get.    reached up to 1.2 tonnes of gold and  timely coordinated event. One of
                                             500kg of silver.                  the problems in many events is
           It is a challenge for compliance to                                 managing such high dignitaries
           do its work in most places. At sam   Currently, Sam has a space     and eminent personalities that
           the decision-making on whether    of 22,000 square feet, but our    generally come for these events.
           to onboard or reject a client has   developments are not enough     I think IGC has done a great job
           solely been given to the compliance   yet. So, we have signed a 10-  organising the event; there’s a lot of
           team without any interference from   year contract with the concerned   hard work which we do not realise;
           the management. Sam is a place    authorities to procure a facilitiy in   it’s months and months of planning
           where we have focused on making   Dubai Production City, which is   and coordination between the
           compliance an independent function,  65,000 square feet This new facility   stakeholders that goes into creating
           which talks about the integrity of the   along with the current refinery will be  such an event. It’s an excellent
           department; there is no influence   approximately 87,000 square     platform for everybody, where we
           from the management or anybody.   feet, making us one of the biggest   connect with people from different
           We are an independent structure   refineries in the world. This is not   backgrounds and industries, playing
           within the organisation.          just about the capacity but also   a part together in the same industry.
                                             about the value-added products. We   Multiple stakeholders are equally
           Every day we are improving; you see,  are going to expand our products.   important in running our industry.
           our standards yesterday and today   Currently, we are offering minted   So getting to know people out here
           it’s one step better, and tomorrow,   bars ranging from 1 gram to 250   and interacting with them is a great
           we will work on something even    grams with different shapes and   opportunity and adds value to the
           better, and the idea for Sam is that   trademarks. Sam currently has five   industry and stakeholders here
           we will be doing business and doing   exclusive trademarks, and we will   today.
           it responsibly; we will compete in the   start producing precious chemicals
           market with integrity and honesty.    used in the precious metal industry.



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