GCA Competitors

As the world's leading derivatives marketplace, CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) is where the world comes to manage risk. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes, including futures and options based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural commodities, metals, weather and real estate. CME Group brings buyers and sellers together through its CME Globex® electronic trading platform and its trading facilities in New York and Chicago. CME Group also operates CME Clearing, one of the world’s leading central counterparty clearing provider in the world, which offers clearing and settlement services for exchange-traded contracts, as well as for over-the-counter derivatives transactions through CME ClearPort®. These products and services ensure that businesses everywhere can substantially mitigate counterparty credit risk in both listed and over-the-counter derivatives markets.

For more than 15 years, APMEX has been one of the nation’s largest Precious Metals e-retailers. Boasting over $14 billion in transactions, APMEX was recently ranked #1 Specialty E-Retailer and #42 out of 500 e-retailers, according to Internet Retailer Magazine. APMEX provides quality products, outstanding customer service and amazingly fast delivery to our rapidly expanding base of individual and corporate customers. With more than 10,000 products in stock, customers are sure to find what they are looking for. Our state-of-the-art website and dedicated and knowledgeable Account Managers provide customers with multiple options to research, learn and purchase as an investor or collector across a wide range of bullion, semi-numismatic and numismatic items. Our drive to increase ownership in Precious Metals has led us to pioneer innovative solutions and create the largest variety of product offerings available in the industry. Our employees are faced with dynamic and challenging opportunities each day to learn and grow professionally. Whether advancing the technology and security powering our website, providing new products or ensuring customer satisfaction with each delivery, APMEX employees strive to bring our customers a concierge level of service matched by none. Customers appreciate our dedication to their needs, ranking us a 9.7 out of 10 on satisfaction and giving APMEX a 5-star rating.

For 50 years, Monex has been one of America's trusted names in gold and other precious metals. With client transactions now totaling over $60 billion. Today, Monex is a premier precious metals dealer because of our dedication to customer service and satisfaction. Located in Newport Beach, California, Monex is home to a staff of hard asset professionals committed to serving our clients' investment needs with a convenient two-way market and competitive pricing. As a result of our clients' trust in Monex, 80% of our business is from repeat precious metals business, and about one-quarter of our new clientele are referred to us by existing customers. Today, three generations of the Carabini family are now working at Monex, including founder Louis Carabini, his son and president Michael, and Michael's daughters Cristina and Anna Maria. In addition, more than 43% of Monex employees have been with the company for a decade or more.