As the strategic relationship between Valcambi and Credit Suisse grew, in 1967 the bank acquired 50% ownership in Valcambi and a further 30% 18 months later.

In 1980 Valcambi became a wholly owned subsidiary of the bank.

Despite its long and deep involvement in the bullion market, in October 2001 Credit Suisse made a strategic move and withdrew from much of its bullion business. Valcambi was sold in 2003 to European Gold Refineries (EGR), a shareholding made up of Newmont Mining Corporation and a group of Swiss investors. The business model for the newly independent refinery was simple and benefitted not only from the strong support of Newmont but also from the ongoing support of Credit Suisse, which continued to offer financing to the refinery. This took the company from strength to strength. We weathered financial storms by focusing on our core business areas, and we celebrated our 50th anniversary in 2011.

In 2008, Valcambi was the first refiner to introduce fully traceable gold from mine to client, under the brand name Valcambi GreenGold™.

In 2011, Valcambi introduced the CombiBar™, the most innovative investment product that offers the possibility of breaking the bar into groups of small bars of 1 g pieces.

From 2014 onwards, Valcambi has engaged in Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM), supporting miners to adopt responsible practices, and has sourced from mines in South America.

Till July 2015 EGR was owned by Newmont Mining (60.6%) and private investors (39.4%).

Today Valcambi is fully owned by Global Gold Refineries Ltd (GGR) incorporated in Switzerland.

GGR belongs to REL Singapore PTE Ltd in Singapore (95%) and Rajesh Exports Limited (5%) a stock market listed company (NSE / BSE) in Bangalore, India.

Valcambi has continued to further commit to ASM, has obtained Fairmined and Fairtrade Certification, and has joined the Swiss Better Gold Association (SBGA) and the European Partnership for Responsible Minerals (EPRM).

In 2017 Valcambi started to search for a solution to protect its products against the growing threat from counterfeiting and adopted the new authentication technology developed in Switzerland by paira suisse ag.

Since beginning of 2019 Valcambi is using this new technology and the added security of this system. A unique and encrypted digital fingerprint for each bar has been created and does therefore not require any physical or chemical changes or additions to the kilo bars produced.

In 2019 Valcambi started to work together with a startup called aXedras and asked them to program two new modules called aXCirculation and aXProvenance to increase the traceability for Valcambi’s new bullion bars.

In 2020 we adopted a new Secured Data Storage (SDS) system that strengthens and automates our precious metals sourcing process and allows increased transparency and sharing of information based on block chain technology and accessible to all appropriate auditing parties.

In 2022 Valcambi started to search for a local partner in Saudi Arabia with the target to build a new LBMA Good Delivery Refinery in Saudi Arabia, Riyadh.

In the same year we have introduced a new Risk Management Application (RMA) in order to create and receive a better pre warning of situations which are relevant and are going to happen.

After years of being at variance with ASCFMP regarding transparent sourcing Valcambi leaves ASFCMP in 2023.