Ecosystem
Two vehicles, one infrastructure framework.
Barklem&Chi operates as the parent infrastructure company. Each vehicle is a distinct technology company with its own market, operating model and governance surface — built on layers the group defines once.
An institutional marketplace facilitation service for the global precious metals and physical commodities trade. Nelum digitises the trade lifecycle through business verification (KYB), stage-gated transaction workflows and verified funding mechanisms, so high-value physical supply chains stay transparent, accountable and internationally acceptable.
- Verification
- Entity-level KYB
- Workflow
- Stage-gated transactions
- Funding
- Verified on-chain
A digital wealth and capital infrastructure platform for the West African landscape, in development for the Nigerian market. Veridity uses automated framework logic to organise domestic capital, lower the operational cost of serving a participant, and hold institutional operating standards from the first release rather than as a later retrofit.
- Logic
- Automated frameworks
- Capital
- Local efficiencies
- Standards
- Institutional from day one
Parent and vehicle
What the group holds, and what each vehicle owns.
- Technical framework and standards
- Barklem&Chi
- Compliance policy and controls
- Barklem&Chi
- Market strategy and product
- Vehicle
- Counterparty relationships
- Vehicle
- Operating model
- Vehicle, centrally governed
Shared framework
Built once, inherited by every vehicle.
Identity and verification
Entity verification, ownership and authority held at group standard. Nelum applies it to counterparties in physical trade; Veridity applies it to market participants.
Workflow and state
Stage-gated processes where the platform holds state rather than the parties — trade lifecycle in one market, account and allocation lifecycle in the other.
Rules and controls
Policy encoded as executable rules: limits, permissions and conditions enforced at the point of action instead of reviewed afterwards.
Record and reporting
An immutable, audit-formatted record of what happened and on what evidence, produced as a by-product of operation rather than assembled on request.
Admission
What a third vehicle would have to satisfy.
Structural friction, not preference
The problem must persist because the market has no shared infrastructure for it, not because incumbents are inattentive.
Verifiable state
The facts the market disputes must be capable of being evidenced and recorded, so software can hold them rather than describe them.
Framework fit
It must be able to inherit the group's verification, control and reporting layers without a parallel standard being written for it.
Portable records
Its records must be legible to counterparties, auditors and regulators outside the market it starts in.
Founding office