nelum.tech

Institutional marketplace facilitation for the global precious metals and physical commodities trade.

Nelum digitises the trade lifecycle through secure business verification (KYB), structured transaction workflows and verified on-chain funding mechanisms, keeping high-value physical asset supply chains transparent, accountable and internationally accepted.

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The friction

Physical trade still moves on documents, not infrastructure.

In precious metals and physical commodities, counterparty identity, mandate authority, funding proof and custody status are established repeatedly, by hand, across jurisdictions. Every participant re-verifies the same facts, and none of them share a record.

The cost is not only time. Deals fail on unverifiable claims, credible sellers are indistinguishable from intermediaries, and institutions cannot satisfy their own compliance functions on evidence that arrives as correspondence.

Identity: Who the counterparty actually is, and who may bind them
Capacity: Whether funding and material exist as represented
Record: What happened, in a form a third party will accept

The lifecycle

Five stages, each one verified before the next opens.

Workflow state is held by the platform, not by the parties. Nothing advances on assertion alone.

Onboarding

Entity, ownership and signatory authority established through business verification before access is granted.

Mandate

Terms, volumes, specification and delivery structure captured as a defined instrument rather than correspondence.

Funding

Verified funding mechanisms evidence capacity to settle, visible to both sides without exposing account detail.

Execution

Custody, assay and logistics milestones recorded against the transaction as they are confirmed.

Settlement

Release against confirmed delivery, leaving a complete transaction record for audit and compliance review.

How it holds

Know Your Business, held once

Corporate identity, beneficial ownership and authority to transact are verified at entity level and carried across every subsequent transaction, rather than re-collected by each counterparty.

Entity registration and standing
Beneficial ownership and control
Signatory authority and mandate scope
Sanctions and adverse-media screening

Capacity evidenced, not claimed

Verified funding mechanisms let a buyer demonstrate settlement capacity and a seller demonstrate material control, with the transaction advancing only as each condition is met.

Proof of funding capacity
Condition-linked release
Immutable transaction trail
Records formatted for audit

Who it serves

Producers and refiners

Present verified standing and material control to institutional buyers without routing through layers of intermediaries.

Trading houses

Run structured workflows across jurisdictions on a single verification standard, with a transaction record a compliance function will accept.

Funders and institutions

Assess exposure against evidenced positions and documented milestones rather than counterparty representation.

Standards

Built to be internationally accepted.

Nelum operates within the technical framework, compliance policies and operating model set by Barklem&Chi. Verification standards, record formats and workflow controls are defined at group level, so a transaction completed in one jurisdiction is legible to counterparties and their auditors in another.

Verification standard: Group-defined, entity-level
Transaction record: Immutable, audit-formatted
Workflow control: Stage-gated, platform-held
Governance: Barklem&Chi framework

Founding office

Onboarding counterparties, or integrating a desk?

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