When a central bank asks for its gold back, nobody expects a truck to pull up to the Bank of England loading dock. The process is slower, quieter, and far more political than that

When people hear “gold” and “Dutch central bank” in the same sentence, they often picture something out of a spy film: sealed vaults, bars stamped with serial numbers, officials wh

Tucked away in vaults on two continents and in the Netherlands itself sits around 612 tonnes of gold belonging to De Nederlandsche Bank, the Dutch central bank. That places the Net