Two. At present, the main formal precious metal trading platforms in China are as follows:
1. Shanghai Gold Exchange: Shanghai Gold Exchange. With the approval of the State Council, the People's Bank of China established a financial factor market specializing in gold trading. In 20 18, the gold trading volume of Shanghai Gold Exchange ranked second in the global exchange market.
2. Southern Rare and Precious Metals Exchange: Hunan Southern Rare and Precious Metals Exchange Co., Ltd., referred to as Southern Exchange, was formally approved by the Hunan Provincial People's Government. Its trading mode is spot listing and delisting trading mode. According to the information of buyers and sellers in the market, choose transactions independently, and all kinds of transactions can be picked up from the spot at any time.
3. tianjin precious metal exchange: tianjin precious metal exchange, referred to as Jingui Institute for short, is a legal person exchange initiated by Tianjin Property Rights Exchange Center with the approval of Tianjin Municipal Government according to the policy spirit of the State Council's Opinions on Promoting the Development and Opening-up of Binhai New Area. The business scope of Tianjin Institute is precious metals (including gold and silver), nonferrous metals, ferrous metals, metallic materials, steel and its products, mineral products and their raw materials (excluding coal).
4. Guangdong Precious Metals Trading Center: Guangdong Precious Metals Trading Center Co., Ltd. is the only provincial precious metals trading platform invested and controlled by Guangdong SASAC. Prospering the precious metal industry in Guangdong Province, standardizing precious metal trading, broadening the field of financial services, and promoting the domestic precious metal trading market and
International market integration.
5. China Financial Futures Exchange: China Financial Futures Exchange, referred to as CICC. Approved by the State Council and China Securities Regulatory Commission, it is a company-based exchange specializing in the trading and settlement of financial derivatives such as financial futures and options.
Advantages and characteristics of precious metals: Precious metals have both financial and commodity attributes, and banks have natural advantages in precious metals business, which can provide customers with comprehensive and diversified precious metal products and services. The biggest feature of the bank's intervention in precious metals investment is that the scope of repurchase has expanded from the original merchants only buying their own brand of investment gold bars to all thousands of gold, which not only broke the previous self-recognition situation, but also gave full play to the advantages of banks in capital and settlement channels, and opened up all the circulation links of gold from investment to cash, which was convenient for consumers.