BFI Group Blog

The shift we saw over the past couple of years has been a historic one and its implications are sure to be far-reaching and long lasting. After over a decade of monetary easing and ultra-low interest rates, a policy direction that came to a crescendo during the pandemic, inflation finally and inevitably reared its ugly head.

Switzerland is a great success story in many ways: politically, economically, and socially. It’s virtually impossible to find any other country that has the same stability and competitiveness that we have managed to retain for so long. Still, there’s no such thing as “perfect”, and Switzerland is no exception.

The hard work that the team at aXedras, the youngest member of our BFI Capital Group, has been putting in behind the scenes with the...

More exciting news from aXedras during the month of September: aXedras has announced a collaboration with the Royal Canadian Mint, a...

After decades in the financial and geopolitical world, Don McAlvany and his wife, Molly, founded the Asian Pacific Children's Fund (APCF) to

The primary problem for the global economy today is a massive amount of debt and deficits: money has been “free” for far too long. In...

In this Fireside Conversation, Frank R. Suess sits down with Christoph Wild, president of the ASFCMP (in English, the Swiss Association...

Threats to freedom of speech and efforts to suppress dissenting views and voices have been on the rise over the past decades. They were...

The following article is a loose translation to English of an article which originally appeared last month, in German, at Nebelspalter...

In the following past from the folks at aXedras, they share and recap the happenings at the Bullion Integrity Forum, an annual event they...

Markus Somm and Frank R. Suess examine Swiss history and discuss why this country is such a special case.

BFI Bullion celebrates its 15th anniversary on August 20th, which evoked a bit of nostalgia and stirred an urge to look back at our...

Regulatory offensives have been coming for crypto in waves ever since the sector’s first boom-and-bust cycle in 2016-2017. The US...

If you’ve ever shopped around a bit when wanting to buy 1oz gold coins, you’ve undoubtedly done some comparing between coins like the...

At the end of June, the US Supreme Court struck down President Biden's plan to cancel billions in student debt. In a 6-3 ruling, the...

After possibly the steepest monetary tightening by the US Federal Reserve, the danger of a credit crisis is growing. In our 2020 report,...

In the fall of 2020, we published our special report “On the brink of a New Era–are you prepared?” and in it, we gave our readers an idea...

So far 2023 has been a very bad year for the banking sector. The monetary policy U-turn, spearheaded by the Federal Reserve, but quickly...

In this second part of the Fireside Conversation between Frank R. Suess and the CEO of the World Gold Council, David Tait, they discuss...

In this Fireside Conversation between Frank R. Suess and David Tait, the CEO of the World Gold Council, a market development organization...