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Bullion World | Volume 5 | Issue 06 | June 2025
Bullion World | Volume 5 | Issue 06 | June 2025
Why Now: A Turning Point for Benefits For Market

Global Gold Markets Participants

Gold is playing a renewed role in capital markets, not For physical trading desks, hedgers, and bullion market
just as a store of value, but as a strategic asset for professionals, the Abaxx system delivers tools designed
central banks, institutional portfolios, and commercial to reduce operational friction, enhance price alignment,
hedgers navigating geopolitical and monetary and support effective participation in modern global
uncertainty. Prices have reached all-time highs, and gold markets.
central bank accumulation continues to exceed
historical norms. • Efficient Settlement and Transfer: Trade and title
transfer to physical gold electronically through
Yet while Asia now accounts for the majority of global Abaxx Spot, with delivery and storage in approved
bullion demand, gold’s market infrastructure remains Singapore vaults. Streamline post-trade operations
fragmented. Benchmarks and settlement systems and reduce reliance on fragmented OTC workflows.
still reflect Western formats, hours, and assumptions,
misaligned with where demand is strongest.. • Aligned Hedging Instruments: The Abaxx Singapore
Gold Futures contract reflects Asia’s kilobar market
Abaxx is addressing this disconnect by anchoring and regional delivery conventions, improving basis
both price discovery and settlement infrastructure accuracy and providing better tools for managing
in Singapore, and by structuring its contracts around directional and physical exposure.
kilobars — the preferred unit for Asia’s bullion trade.
The result is a more resilient, integrated system that • Integrated Spot and Futures Access: The world’s
reduces the friction between futures and physical first co-located infrastructure for spot and futures
markets, offering tools that reflect how gold is used and trading enables convergence between price
traded today. discovery, hedging, and delivery, removing the
need for cross-regional arbitrage between New
York, London, and Asia.
BUILDING THE FUTURE OF GOLD

Gold continues to play a vital role in the global • Transparent Market Participation: Abaxx Spot’s
financial system — from central bank reserves and pre-funded CLOB model enables direct access,
institutional portfolios to real-world settlement and transparent pricing, and lower counterparty risk,
collateral. But the systems that support gold trading enhancing trust and participation across global and
and delivery remain outdated and disconnected from regional users.
the way gold is actually used today.
• Global Infrastructure, Built for Asia: While globally
Abaxx Exchange and Abaxx Spot introduce a new accessible, the Abaxx system is tailored to the
model: physically-deliverable futures, a digitally product standards and settlement practices
integrated spot pool, and shared settlement of Asia’s physical gold market, where kilobars
infrastructure in Asia’s primary trading hub. Together, dominate and demand continues to grow.
they form the foundation for more transparent,
resilient, and smarter gold markets for the 21st
century.

To learn more or begin trading:
Abaxx Exchange Gold Kilobar Futures: sales@abaxx.exchange
Abaxx Spot: sales@abaxxspot.com

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