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The London Gold Fixing (or Gold Fix) is the setting of the price of gold that used to be held on the premises of Nathan Mayer Rothschild & Sons by the members of The London Gold Market Fixing Ltd. However, in 2004, Nathan Mayer Rothschild left the precious metals business in London and sold its place on the fixing to Barclays. From that time onwards, the fixing has taken place via a dedicated conference line. This was clearly a necessity as some banks moved their London operations away from the close proximity to the Bank of England and gravitated to areas such as Canary Wharf.
However, the benchmark is still determined twice each business day of the London bullion market - the exceptions to this being Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve when there is only one fixing which is in the morning. It is designed to fix a price for settling contracts between members of the London bullion market, but the gold fixing informally provides a recognized rate that is used as a benchmark for pricing the majority of gold products and derivatives throughout the world's markets. The gold fix is conducted in the United States dollar (USD), the Pound sterling (GBP), and the Euro (EUR) daily at 10.30am and 3pm, by London time.
The current participants in the fixing are Barclays, the Bank of China, Goldman Sachs, HSBC Bank USA, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Société Générale, Standard Chartered, ScotiaMocatta (Scotiabank), the Toronto-Dominion Bank, and UBS.
A class action lawsuit seeking $1 billion in damages on behalf of Canadian investors was launched December 18, 2015 in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. The class action alleges that the defendants conspired to manipulate prices in the gold market under the guise of the benchmark fixing process, known as the London PM Fixing, for a ten-year period:.

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