CUSIP Global Services Teams With Delaware Depository To Create Industryâs First Standardized Security Identifiers For Gold Bars - First-Of-Its-Kind Initiative Critical To Modernization Of Precious Metals Market

CUSIP Global Services (CGS) today announced a collaboration with Delaware Depository^®, one of the nation’s leading providers of precious metals custody services, to create the first-ever CUSIP identifiers for physical precious metals. The unique security identifiers, which will be assigned by CGS to the Delaware Depository’s fungible products, will be used to help standardize the process of trading and tracking precious metals within investor portfolios.