SINGAPORE—Deutsche Bank AG DBK.XE +1.50% is opening a vault in Singapore that can hold $9 billion of gold, as it hopes to tap rising demand for the precious metal in Asia amid a push by the city-state to burnish its image as a bullion-trading hub.
Singapore last year scrapped a goods-and-services tax on gold in a bid to help boost its share of global gold demand to 10%-15% within a decade from around 2% in 2012 as it seeks to compete with more established bullion-trading centers.
"Gold has traditionally been stored in London, Zurich and New York, but there is a serious shift in dynamics going on as the global financial crisis continues to evolve," Mark Smallwood, Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management's head of wealth planning in the Asia-Pacific region, told The Wall Street JournalFriday.
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