International buyers
Built for buyers who answer to a compliance function
Aptus Group works with refineries, bullion dealers, jewellery manufacturers, commodity traders and import-export companies outside Kenya. What those buyers need is not only metal — it is a transaction whose provenance, purity, licensing and payment trail can still be explained to their own bank, refiner and auditor eighteen months later. That requirement, rather than price, is what our process is built around.
Who we work with
Different buyers, different questions
The requirement changes depending on where you sit in the chain. So does what we have to evidence.
Refineries and refiner agents
Feedstock buyers whose acceptance policy governs whether a consignment can be placed at all. We establish acceptance before shipment rather than after arrival.
Needs: Provenance record, origin documentation, consistent weights and fineness across the file.
Bullion and precious metals dealers
Buyers reselling into an onward market, for whom documentation depth is a commercial variable as much as a compliance one.
Needs: Assay certification, retained samples, a clean chain of title and a settlement mechanism their bank recognises.
Jewellery manufacturers
Fabrication buyers with specific fineness and form requirements and a continuity of supply problem rather than a one-off purchase.
Needs: Consistent fineness, predictable cadence, and a counterparty that will decline rather than substitute.
Commodity traders and trading houses
Counterparties who price against a benchmark as a matter of course and who will test whether a quotation is a formula or a number.
Needs: Stated reference, fixing, pricing date and differential; clear Incoterms and risk transfer.
Import and export companies
Intermediaries whose own customers will ask the same questions again, one step further down the chain.
Needs: A document set that survives being passed on, and an exporter of record they can name.
Institutional and private buyers
Buyers operating legitimately within their own jurisdiction's regulations, including registration regimes for precious metals dealers.
Needs: A transaction that satisfies their own regulator, not only their own satisfaction.
What a first engagement looks like
- You send a requirement: form, fineness, indicative quantity and cadence, destination market and consignee, preferred transaction structure.
- We respond with a named contact and a written summary of the requirement as we understood it — or a clear statement that we cannot serve it.
- Mutual qualification: corporate identity, beneficial ownership, screening, banking and end use, in both directions.
- We confirm supply against the requirement and assemble the provenance record before quoting firm.
- Independent assay, with your laboratory and your inspector if you prefer.
- Commercial terms in writing, the export file assembled, and settlement against a verifiable event.
Things we will tell you that other desks may not
- When we cannot serve a requirement. Declining is a normal outcome and we prefer to do it early.
- When your destination refiner is unlikely to accept material of a given origin, before you contract rather than after arrival.
- When a structure you have been offered elsewhere carries risk you may not have priced — particularly any structure requiring payment before verification.
- What we cannot currently evidence about ourselves. That list is published on our compliance page rather than hidden.
Questions
From international buyers
Do you work with buyers outside Kenya?
What will you provide to our compliance function?
Which markets do you serve?
How do we start?
Next step
Looking to source gold from Kenya?
Tell us what you are looking for — form, quantity, purity and destination market — and our trade desk will tell you plainly whether we can serve it, and on what terms.
Monday to Friday, 08:00–17:00 East Africa Time (UTC+3)