How to check if your gold jewellery is real and what all the hallmarks mean... pawnbroker expert reveals all the tricks of the trade

James Constantinou, founder of Prestige Pawnbrokers, told This is Money why gold's gone up in price, how gold jewellery hallmarks work and what gold purity is.

JoyNews Research has fact-checked a claim by Abena Osei-Asare, former Minister of State at the Finance Ministry and Chairperson of Parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC), concerning the losses the Bank of Ghana reported in connection with its Domestic Gold Purchase Programme (DGPP).