Fuche Hamidou A.
Founder & CEO
Structures operations across the Africa ↔ Gulf corridor. Leads relations with state channels, sourcing compliance and financial governance, from purchase at the counter through to settlement with the refiner.
Dubai · DMCC — Gold & petroleum products
The corridor of value,
between Africa
and the Gulf.
Physical gold sourced in West Africa through legal state channels and delivered to Dubai refineries. A 22 to 25-day cycle, with a documented chain of custody from counter to settlement.
35 %
recordedShare of Burkina Faso's state channel in the country's gold exports in 2024 — a now-central circuit
16 ×
targetCapital rotations per year — cruising-speed target
22-25 d
targetLength of a full cycle, from counter to refiner settlement
100 %
commitmentOf flows documented end to end
Gold price: 4,500 $/oz
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Two verticals, one corridor.
Vertical I · active
Physical gold trading
From the buying counter in West Africa to the Dubai refinery, with a documentary file per lot.
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Vertical II · being operationalised
Petroleum products
The mirror of the gold flow: refined products from the Gulf to Africa, in back-to-back operations.
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A living corridor,
a measured cycle.
From a West African counter to a Gulf refinery.
- 01Seller presented
- 02Weighing & assay
- 03Daily quotation
- 04Cash settlement
- 05Entered in the register
- 06Lot consolidation
- 07Secured transport
- 08Contradictory assay
- 09Refiner settlement
- 10Capital recycled
Performance comes not from unit margin, but from speed.
The corridor is currently operated from West Africa — Burkina Faso, Mali, Guinea. Its extension to Central Africa is in preparation, on the same compliance foundation.
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Compliance,
before the transaction.
- Know your counterparty — complete, blocking file before any transaction, processed in 5 business days
- Screening — sanctions and politically exposed persons lists, time-stamped log retained
- Chain of custody — five mandatory items per lot, file reconstitutable at any time
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Leadership
Lionel Guinebert
Business Development Manager
Develops and qualifies the sourcing network across the corridor, and leads relations with Dubai refineries.
In preparation
Oreol Trust Corridor
An infrastructure designed to make trust producible and reusable in commodity transactions.