{"id":1205,"date":"2017-02-23T16:00:06","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T08:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sellgoldmalaysia.com\/?p=1205"},"modified":"2020-03-20T22:38:29","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T14:38:29","slug":"infographic-bullion-banking-mechanics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sellgoldmalaysia.com\/bm\/infographic-bullion-banking-mechanics\/","title":{"rendered":"Infographic: Bullion Banking Mechanics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>23 Feb 2017<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">By BullionStar<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bullionstar.com\/\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">https:\/\/www.bullionstar.com\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Bullion banks are some of the most influential participants in the global gold market. But who are these players and what do they actually do? And most importantly, how can these bullion banks trade thousands of times more gold each year than is actually in existence?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">This infographic lifts the lid on bullion banking, looking at the world of fractional-reserve paper gold trading built on the unallocated gold account system. Topics covered include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">The identities of these bullion banks<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">The fractional reserve nature of bullion banking and the paper gold creation process<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">How the staggeringly large paper gold trading volumes are generated<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">The gold price discovery process and how the price of gold is set in London by unallocated trading which channels gold demand away from real physical gold and into paper<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">The secretive nature of the bullion banking club and how its activities in the City of London are deliberately shrouded in secrecy<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">How new competitors into the London Gold Market claim to be providing competition but are actually perpetuating the underlying unallocated gold account system of trading<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">For more information about the mechanics of bullion banking, please also see BullionStar Gold University article <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bullionstar.com\/gold-university\/bullion-banking-mechanics\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Bullion Banking Mechanics<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bullionstar.com\/blogs\/bullionstar\/infographic-bullion-banking-mechanics\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.bullionstar.com\/blogs\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Bullion-Banking-Infographic.jpg\" width=\"600\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bullion Banking Mechanics \u2013 An infographic hosted at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bullionstar.com\">BullionStar.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>23 Feb 2017 By BullionStar https:\/\/www.bullionstar.com\/ Bullion banks are some of the most influential participants in the global gold market. But who are these players and what do they actually do? And most importantly, how can these bullion banks trade thousands of times more gold each year than is actually in existence? This infographic lifts&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sellgoldmalaysia.com\/bm\/infographic-bullion-banking-mechanics\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Infographic: Bullion Banking Mechanics<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gold"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sellgoldmalaysia.com\/bm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sellgoldmalaysia.com\/bm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sellgoldmalaysia.com\/bm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sellgoldmalaysia.com\/bm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sellgoldmalaysia.com\/bm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sellgoldmalaysia.com\/bm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sellgoldmalaysia.com\/bm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sellgoldmalaysia.com\/bm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sellgoldmalaysia.com\/bm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sellgoldmalaysia.com\/bm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}