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The allocated & segregated storage of gold and silver (domestic and bonded vault)

Welcome to Premium Merchant Bank, your premier Swiss storage solution for safeguarding precious metals and valuables outside the traditional banking system. We offer high-security, individualized storage options tailored to meet your needs, ensuring the utmost privacy and tax efficiency. With our allocated and segregated storage, your assets are securely held in private safe deposit boxes or dedicated pallets guaranteeing that you receive exactly what you deposited. Explore our duty-free and open warehouses for added convenience, especially for white metals like silver.

Premium Merchant Bank specializes in private, high-security storage solutions

Tailored to the individual needs of our clients:

Allocated & Segregated Storage: Your assets are stored under your name in private safe deposit boxes or on dedicated pallets, ensuring that you receive exactly what you deposited. This is not a collective storage system; each item remains fully yours.
Duty-Free & Open Bonded Warehouses: For clients interested in white metals like silver, our duty-free (ZFL) and open customs warehouses (OZL) enable tax-free purchase, storage, and trading.
Full-Risk Insurance: Partnering with Lloyds of London, Bauer offers comprehensive coverage against theft, robbery, fraud, fire, and water damage.
Bank-Independent Custody: Your valuables are stored off-balance-sheet and outside the banking sector, protecting your assets from financial instability or institutional risk.
Discreet & Professional Service: From storage to retrieval, Bauer handles all logistics on your behalf. Written orders are sufficient; you do not need to be on-site.
International Accessibility: Clients worldwide—including Europe, North and Latin America, Asia, and Africa—can access Bauer’s services without needing a Swiss bank account. Flexible payment options include USD, EUR, CHF, Bitcoin, and Ethereum.
Value-Added Services: We also facilitate the tax-free buying and selling of precious metals through our partner broker, and provide storage solutions for cash/banknotes for Swiss institutional clients.

For investors who want to store their precious metals – such as gold, silver, platinum or palladium – as well as their other valuables in a safe place outside of a bank, so-called allocated & segregated storage or individual custody is a viable option. Behind the service which Premium Merchant Bank has been offering since 2006 is an individualised system for the storage of valuables. They are held in private, high-security vaults and safes or in either duty-free (ZFL) or open bonded warehouses (OZL), also known as open customs warehouses (OCW). Such warehouses are particularly attractive for the storage of white metals, because the purchase, sale and storage of them are possible without tax.

The storage allows for the safekeeping of your property via a contract of custody which is drawn up in accordance with the Swiss Code of Obligations. All stocks are stored with bar or seal numbers allocated and segregated on pallets or placed in special lockers. Unlike a collective storage system, investors get back exactly the same precious metals that they had originally deposited.

Storage of gold and silver (domestic and bonded vault)

About Us

Further advantages of segregated valuables storage

Premium Merchant Bankr partner Lloyds of London. This constitutes a full-risk insurance and covers the risk of, inter alia, theft, robbery and fraud, as well as fire risks and water damage. Due to the segregated storage in your name your values are never on our balance sheet, so you do not have to worry about losing it in the unlikely event of bankruptcy of the storage provider.

Your valuables remain your property at all times and are stored with full discretion. For institutional clients, we also offer the possibility of storing cash / bank notes. Furthermore, the purchase and sale of precious metals is possible through our partner / broker Echtgeld Ltd. .

If you wish, Swiss Gold Safe will take care of any storage and retrievals on your behalf. You don’t have to be on site in person – we only need your written order.

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Mara Jalloh

CEO, Bauer

Our Focus

Why store assets and valuables in Switzerland?

Switzerland is a member of the United Nations (UNO) and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), but is not a member of the European Union (EU) – a feature which is particularly advantageous as regards the storage of precious metals.

Beyond this, Switzerland is a global wholesale trading hub for physical gold, and is also considered the world market leader in gold processing, thanks to the presence of local gold refineries such as Argor-Heraeus, Metalor, Pamp and Valcambi.

Last but not least, Switzerland is one of the most economically, politically and legally stable nations in the world today with a long-established tradition of safeguarding property rights, which benefits Swiss citizens and foreign investors alike. Meanwhile, its geographic location in the heart of continental Europe, with good access and an efficient infrastructure, offers further practical advantages.

What storage facilities can Premium Merchant Bank offer?
Premium Merchant Bank provides a comprehensive range of safe deposit boxes and vaults to meet the diverse needs of private and business clients. These high-security facilities are located in the Gotthard area and in other carefully chosen locations around Zurich. All stored assets are optimally protected by a combination of security features: impregnable natural walls; repurposed former military bunkers; and modern, custom-built installations designed to meet the most stringent security standards.

Safe deposit boxes are suitable for the secure storage of gold, precious stones, jewellery, artworks and cultural treasures, sensitive documents, data-storage media, cash, hardware wallets and many other valuables. The company can also offer practical options for the VAT-free storage of coins and bars made from white metals such as silver, platinum or palladium. These can be deposited in either allocated storage within designated domestic and duty-free warehouses.