Anti-Money Laundering Act
OMM subject to Article 6 OBA
Oversight of Swiss financial markets and AML regime
Ultimate authority under which OMM operates
Swiss Precious Metals Association
Full Member since July 2026
Legal form
Anonymous Society (SA)
Jurisdiction
Switzerland
Regulator
FINM under Swoss AMLA, Article 6 OBA
Parent Entity
OCIM Finance SAS (Paris)
Subsidiary
Soleil Metals SAC, Peru (100%)
OCIM Metals & Mining SA (OMM) is the Swiss subsidary of the group. It is incorporated under Swiss law and is supervised by FINMA under Article 6 of the Anti Money Laundering Ordinance. Based in Geneva, OMM oversees the group’s activities and manages the compliance framework applied across all entities. Vanessa Hungerbühler, formerly a compliance officer at Credit Suisse and UBS, legally responsible for that framework.
OCIM Metals & Mining also conducts two commercial activities in Geneva: physical gold trading and financing along the gold value chain.
The framework governing onboarding, sourcing and traceability across the group is designed and consolidated in Geneva. It applies the same customer knowledge rules that a bank uses for its counterparties to the ASM supplier: a geographic risk assessment against Conflict Affected and High Risk Area indicators, more than twenty documents per supplier file, on site verification of the mine and chemical fingerprinting of every incoming batch at the plant. Country risk is managed at group level.
OCIM Metals & Mining provides financing across the gold value chain: including operational financing for Soleil Metals and offtake and prepayment agreements with various other actors. The company also coordinates financial flows between the group’s entities and their commercial partners, while maintaining relationships with banking partners.
OCIM Metals & Mining acts as a trader on international markets, serving as the primary point of contact with institutional counterparties.
FINMA supervision under Swiss AMLA, and Article 6 of the Anti Money Laundering Ordinance. This is the same regulatory framework that applies to Swiss banks, and is now being applied to a precious metals trader and producer.
The industry has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the World Gold Council in 2026 on the formalisation of artisanal mining. Full membership of the Swiss Precious Metals Association (ASMP) was granted in July 2026, alongside Switzerland’s leading refiners, traders and banks.
OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict Affected and High Risk Areas. LBMA ASM Toolkit as the sector reference for onboarding, sourcing and traceability.
OCIM upstream KYC framework. Designed and consolidated in Geneva, applied group wide. 22 documents are screened against the FATF, OFAC and EU sanctions lists for each mining partner at the time of onboarding and periodically thereafter.
Head of Compliance
Fifteen years at Credit Suisse and UBS, where she served as Executive Director and Deputy Head of Compliance for Geneva and French speaking Switzerland. Co founder of Unravel One, a firm specialising in AML, OSINT, asset tracing and compliance advisory. Joined OCIM in 2025 to design the group's compliance framework and risk management.
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Head of Treasury and Operations
Based in Geneva, Maxime oversees the liquidity, collateral management, financial statements, risks and operations of the OCIM Group and each of its entities.
Financial Analyst
Marwane Khalloufi, CFA, is a Financial Analyst at OCIM in Geneva. Combining rigorous operational expertise with a macro-driven perspective, he works across the group’s financial value chain, from the precious metals market to corporate finance structuring.
5
Aug 2026
News
Compliance
Partnership aims to support ASGM formalization, strengthen supply chain integrity, and expand pathways to market for responsibly produced gold
13
Jul 2026
News
Our Model
OCIM Metals & Mining is now a member of the Swiss Precious Metals Association (ASMP), which brings together stakeholders in the Swiss precious metals industry around common standards for compliance, accountability, and transparency.
26
Jun 2026
News
Our Model
Group level review of 2025, the year of foundations. Financial results, the compliance framework as operational architecture, ESG indicators on the Peru sites, and the outlook for 2026-2027.
16
Jun 2026
Interview
Responsible Gold
Ivan Salas, Country Manager of Soleil Metals, OCIM’s Peruvian subsidiary, discusses the field reality of responsible gold in Peru on the occasion of the LBMA and World Gold Council Sustainability & Responsible Sourcing Summit, held in London from 17 to 19 June 2026.
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Jun 2026
Explainer
Our Model
Responsible ASM gold is gold for which every link in the chain (extraction practices, commercial relationship with producers, processing and refining) satisfies requirements that are verifiable and demonstrable through an evidence mechanism combining compliance and physical traceability.
15
May 2026
Insight
Our Model
Legal gold production in French Guiana appears to have reached a ceiling, even as illegal gold mining continues to expand, with well-documented environmental consequences.
7
May 2026
Interview
Compliance
Oscar Pezo, Head of Compliance at Soleil Metals, explains banking-grade compliance is applied to miners: twenty-two onboarding documents, upstream KYC files, on-site audits, scientific ore traceability...
4
May 2026
Insight
Impact
Responsible gold has become a concrete subject. This is the implicit conclusion of the report recently published by Swiss Better Gold (SBG), which makes legible an institution that documents itself, opens its governance and articulates its economic thesis with growing clarity.
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Apr 2026
Insight
Impact
On April 17, 2026, Laurent Mathiot, Chairman and CEO of OCIM Group, took part in the seminar “Towards Responsible Gold Mining: Shared Experiences from the Guiana Shield”, organised by the French Embassy in Suriname.
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Apr 2026
Media & Events
Compliance
On April 16, 2026, Vanessa Hungerbühler, Head of Legal and Compliance at OCIM Metals and Mining, took part in Session 3 of the Bullion Integrity Forum, organised by aXedras in Zurich. The panel, entitled “Enhancing Integrity with xTrace: Perspectives from the Early Adopters”, brought together four early adopters of the xTrace traceability system, including two refiners.
Head Office
OCIM Metals & Mining SA, Rue du Rhône 49, 1204 Geneva, Switzerland
Compliance and due diligence
For KYC files, sanctions screening, LBMA documentation and audit requests, please use the form.
