 Customer assets and recorded holdings are continuously reconciled and audited by internal and external auditors.Delaware Depository’s vault staff utilizes various manual and mechanical methods of counterfeit detection to mitigate risk associated with counterfeit or tainted bullion products.A key benefit to storing physical bullion assets in Wilmington, Delaware is that this geographic location has not been impacted by terrorist attacks, weather-related disasters, or geopolitical events that threaten to disrupt a bullion depository’s security and ongoing operations.