Ghana Gold Board — the sole authority for all ASM gold trading and export in Ghana under Act 1140 (2025). GoldBod licences PRC Group as a Tier 2 Buyer, conducts mandatory assay of all procured gold, and maintains the official gold price reference rate. goldbod.gov.gh
Securities and Exchange Commission of Ghana — regulates GoldPool's investor pooling activities under the Crowdfunding Guidelines 2024. The SEC reviews and issues GoldPool's Crowdfunding Intermediary licence, which is required before any public investor funds are accepted. sec.gov.gh
The Bank of Ghana sets the daily Reference Rate used to price all gold purchased by GoldBod from licensed ASM operators — the benchmark price applied to GoldPool's procurement and resale calculations. BoG also regulates the custodian bank holding GoldPool's investor escrow. bog.gov.gh
Ghana Investment Promotion Centre — GoldPool's GIPC registration enables diaspora investors to legally repatriate their gold investment returns to overseas bank accounts in USD, GBP, or EUR without currency control complications. gipc.gov.gh
Minerals Income Investment Fund — operator of the Small-Scale Mining Improvement Programme (SSMIP), which GoldPool's Premium Pool suppliers must be enrolled in. The SSMIP funds transition to mercury-free "Gold Katcha" processing across Ghana's ASM sector. miif.gov.gh
Ghana's Minerals Commission operates the Mining Cadastre Administration System (MCAS) — the official registry of all mining concessions in Ghana. GoldPool records the MinCom MCAS concession ID of every supplier in each pool, giving investors traceability to the specific legal mine their gold came from. mincom.gov.gh
Pan-African identity verification platform. GoldPool uses Smile Identity's Ghana Card NIA API for biometric KYC onboarding — including liveness detection, document authenticity verification, and NIA database matching. Investor identities are screened against global sanctions lists at onboarding and every 30 days. smileidentity.com
Africa's leading payments infrastructure provider. GoldPool uses Flutterwave for investor deposits (GHS mobile money, Ghana bank transfer, USD/GBP/EUR international card) and for investor payouts (mobile money and international bank transfer). GhIPSS-integrated for domestic transactions. flutterwave.com
Amazon Web Services af-south-1 (Cape Town) region hosts all GoldPool investor data and KYC documents, ensuring African data residency compliance under Ghana's Data Protection Act 843. AES-256 encryption at rest via AWS KMS. AWS SES for investor notifications. aws.amazon.com
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