# Prof. Rosa Abrantes-Metz discusses the lack of oversight in gold trading

1 Faculty News June 8, 2014 ![The Gobe and Mail logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030719.jpg?itok=syM8EjNA)>

Excerpt from [The Globe and Mail](http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/energy-and-resources/gold-fix-under-scrutiny-as-regulators-probe-archaic-system/article19063563/) -- "'This is a setting that is very easy to be manipulated either by one individual bank or by a group of them,' said [Rosa Abrantes-Metz](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/Romy), an associate professor with New York University's business school, whose research identified a series of unusual trades before the gold benchmark was announced. 'It completely lacks oversight and involves a very small group of competitors, so it is easy to co-ordinate behaviour,' she said."

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