BullionVault

General information

BullionVault.com is the world's largest physical gold and silver online market, offering private investors the cheapest access to and storage of investment-grade bullion. Launched in 2005, it has now enabled more than 67,000 private investors across 183 countries to benefit from the low dealing costs, deep liquidity and ultra-high security of the wholesale bullion market.

BullionVault users – 89% of whom live in North America or Western Europe – today own $1.6 billion worth of gold bullion between them (£1.2bn, €1.3bn, ¥175bn), more than is held by most of the world's central banks, plus a further $374m (£279m, €316m, ¥42bn) in physical silver and $8m (£6m, €7m, ¥900m) of physical platinum, added to BullionVault's online order board in March 2017 in partnership with the mining-backed World Platinum Investment Council.

Matching almost 5,000 deals for clients on average each week in 2016, BullionVault offers:

• Online & mobile trading 24/7;
• Instant settlement of physical bullion for USD, EUR, GBP and JPY;
• Low-cost storage in secure vaults (London, New York, Singapore, Toronto & Zurich);
• A unique Daily Audit proving the full allocation of client property in public

In 2008 BullionVault became a full member of professional trade body the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA). In 2011 it was one of only four businesses to feature on both The Sunday Times' Fast Track and Top Track league tables of private companies by growth and by size. Winner of a 2009 Queen's Award for Enterprise Innovation, BullionVault received a second award in 2013, this time for International Trade after growing overseas sales by 140% in 4 years. In 2014 it was voted "Best Gold Broker" by readers of MoneyWeek, the UK's best-selling personal finance weekly.