Allocated Bullion Exchange (ABX) launched as the world’s first global electronic exchange for physical precious metals. Its platform will provide market participants integrated, transparent, and secure access to local markets and global liquidity pools.

ABX’s open market with real-time price discovery and transparency is an innovative disruptor to existing methods of physical bullion trading, which are manual, inefficient, inaccessible and lack transparency, resulting in high costs and creating a disincentive for precious metals producers, traders and investors.

Through its proprietary and online trading platform ‘MetalDesk’, ABX provides instant electronic global trading, price discovery, and clearing facilities to market participants worldwide, including all physical industry participants, wealth managers, brokerage platforms and investors.

ABX is centrally-cleared, transparent and cost-effective allocated exchange system. The exchange presents precious metal market participants with a platform where they can safely and efficiently trade, deliver, store and monetize physical precious metals in 11 global locations.

ABX CEO Tom Coughlin said: “Several major industry players are already signed up to join the marketplace. Our soft launch will allow current and pre-onboarded ABX members to announce to their client base the commercialization of ABX and the availability of products and services via the exchange. Our team has been working on this vision for more than five years now. At a time of high volatility in global markets and resurgent interest in precious metals, the launch of ABX is expanding access, enhancing efficiency and raising transparency in a market that historically has been opaque.”

ABX is a membership-based, institutional exchange, offering trading, storage and delivery services for physical precious metals in one electronic environment, via its state-of-the-art technological solution, the MetalDesk trading platform. ABX offers a value proposition to market participants across the world including precious metal producers, refiners, intermediary broker-dealers, asset managers, institutional and private investors, manufacturers and jewellers.