While I found the whole piece to be interesting, these couple of paragraphs were especially so. “In these circumstances the room for the Fed to keep raising interest rates seems restricted and hence it seems that the BIS and some of its owners — other central banks — might be questioning the role of the bank in these swaps and the obligation to make future deliveries of gold.

Indeed, a cynic might claim that the recent deal on the federal government debt makes it easier to defend a banking crisis by allowing the U.S. government to offer more bank deposit guarantees. The debt ceiling deal may even make a revaluation of gold easier for the United States to carry out.” https://goldseek.com/article/bis-gold-swaps-rose-39-may-amid-us-debt-turmoil