The London Bullion Market Association – LBMA
The LBMA is an international trade association, representing the London market for gold and silver bullion which has a global client base. This includes the majority of the gold-holding central banks, private sector investors, mining companies, producers, refiners and fabricators.
The on-going work of the Association covers a number of areas such as refining standards, trading documentation and the development of good trading practices. The maintenance of the Good Delivery List, including the accreditation of new refiners and the regular retesting of listed refiners, is the most important core activity of the LBMA.
Accreditation on the LBMA Good Delivery List is widely recognized as the benchmark standard for the quality of gold and silver bars, due to the stringent criteria that an applicant must satisfy. The unity which approves the accreditation only after implementing extremely difficult criteria by an independent arbitrator and a series of heavy testing presupposes organization’s strength of the financial structure, prestige and having proven itself in the industry in which it operates in order to gain acceptance.
Borsa Istanbul (BIST)
Borsa İstanbul A.Ş. convened all the exchanges operating in the Turkish capital markets under a single roof and started its operation on the 3rd April, 2013.
The main purpose and field of activity of Borsa İstanbul is described as follows: “In accordance with the provisions of the Law and the related legislation, to ensure that capital markets instruments, foreign currencies, precious metals and gems, and other contracts, documents, and assets approved by the Capital Markets Board of Turkey are traded subject to free trade conditions in a facile and secure manner, in a transparent, efficient, competitive, fair and stable environment; to create, establish and develop markets, sub-markets, platforms, systems and other organised market places for the purpose of matching or facilitating the matching of the buy and sell orders for the above mentioned assets and to determine and announce the discovered prices; to manage and/or operate the aforementioned or other exchanges or markets of other exchanges; and to carry out the other activities listed in its Articles of Association.”
Borsa İstanbul Members consist of the intermediary institutions authorized to operate in the capital market and institutions authorized to operate in the Precious Metals and Diamond Markets.
AMD – Turkish Gold Miners Association
It is an association established to conduct research on the use of the best known methods and technologies for the exploration of precious metal reserves in Turkey, the extraction of the found reserves, their operation, enrichment, refining and processing.
Exploration, investment, production, incentive, taxation, import, export, refining and stock market transactions, especially legal regulations for the development of precious metal mining and refining and increasing competitiveness in Turkey, to ensure that environmental measures are carried out according to national and international standards. to form opinions on the laws, regulations, by-laws and circulars that are or will be issued on their subject, to develop new proposals and projects; It is among its activities to help solve the problems by taking initiatives with the relevant ministries and organizations to solve the problems faced by its members. It also carries out activities to inform and enlighten the public about precious metal mining.
SBMA – Singapore Bullion Market Association
Singapore Bullion Market Association (SBMA) is a non-profit organisation formed in December 1993 by 16 corporate members from the precious metals industry to represent key stakeholders, which included bullion banks, exchanges, refineries, bullion merchants and secured logistics support companies. In early 1994, SBMA engaged the Goods & Services Tax (GST) working committee in discussions relating to the exclusion of GST on precious metals, and to develop Singapore as a regional bullion hub.
SGEI – Shanghai Gold Exchange
Members of Shanghai Gold Exchange (SGE) came together between 10 -13 December in Shanghai at the training seminar of SGE. Being a potential member Nadir Metal Refinery was invited also with the other global leading refineries and bullion banks.The Shanghai Gold Exchange executives and Nadir Metal represantatives made bilateral contacts.
COMEX – The Commodity Exchange
The Commodity Exchange, Inc. (“COMEX” or “Exchange”) has approved Nadir Metal Rafineri Tic. A.S. as Approved Brand for delivery against the Exchange’s Gold Futures and Silver Futures contracts.
The Commodity Exchange, Inc. (“COMEX” or “Exchange”) has approved Nadir Metal Rafineri Tic. A.S. as “Approved Brand” for delivery against the Exchange’s Gold Futures (GC) and Silver Futures (SI) contracts on the 27th July, 2020. Gold and silver bars produced by Nadir metal Rafineri can be used to satisfy delivery requirements of the Gold Futures (GC) and Silver Futures (SI) contracts and will afford market participants expanded delivery options.