About the The GBI Platform
Our institutional quality platform powers alternative asset markets in the US, Asia and Europe.
Proprietary over-the-counter marketplace and trading system allows clients to buy and sell precious metals and digital currencies as native assets on their preferred platform. Connected to a global network of market makers, depositories and banks, the platform makes owning such assets as easy and safe as buying a stock or bond.
Our platform connects to the world’s top wealth managers, as well as custodians, banks, e-commerce companies, dealers and mints.
Institutional-Grade Physical Precious Metals Platform
An innovative combination of global over-the-counter marketplace and logistics network allows wealth managers and institutional investors to work with precious metals as a native asset class, maintaining assets under management and growing client relationships.
For Wealth Managers, Funds, Endowments...
Access physical gold, silver, platinum and palladium bars and coins through a competitive marketplace.- Over a dozen dealers, refiners, and bullion banks participate in our marketplace
- The marketplace ensures competitive pricing on a “best execution” basis
- Seven global vaults: New York, Salt Lake City, London, Zurich, Australia, Toronto, and Singapore; run by Brinks, Loomis, and Malca-Amit
- Auditing of physical holdings by Inspectorate
- Fully insured for replacement value by Lloyds of London
Institutional investors not working through a wealth manager (pension funds, endowments, mutual funds, hedge funds etc.) can utilize all the same capabilities through our direct access program.
The GBI Platform Has Expanded To Include Digital Currencies
The GBI digital platform provides the software to connect digital currency market makers to custodians and wealth managers, enabling reliable investment in this new asset class for their underlying customers.
Crypto Currency Solutions
Our cryptocurrency platform is built on the same sound traditions as our other logistics and trading networks:- Assets are stored with a leading independent digital asset custodian to provide maximum safety
- Connections to multiple market makers and liquidity sources provide best execution pricing
- All of these systems can be integrated into B2B customers’ banking and reporting systems.
IRAs
GBI has worked with the leading custodian/trustee to create a digital currency IRA platform that sets a new bar for the industry, with easy account setup, safety, and compliance.Asset & Wealth Management
Asset and wealth managers can buy, sell, and store digital currency through their existing trading/customer platforms, just like it was a traditional asset class -- easily, safely, and under management.Gold Backed Digital Currency
GBI also works with companies issuing precious metals backed digital currencies/utility tokens. Our platform enables just-in-time market making, NAV calculation, storage logistics, fee management, and more.Technology Services for Alternative Assets
The GBI technology services - GBITS - team provides custom technology to help financial companies operate more efficiently and expand quickly.GBI Technology Services (GBITS)
GBI Technology Services (GBITS) has extensive experience creating and powering state-of-the-art platforms for some of the largest and most well-respected financial firms, banks, institutions, and retail clients around the globe.We are experts in solution architecture, data centers, and information security technologies. The GBITS technology platform is based upon a “service-oriented architecture”. We have an extensive list of ready to deploy building blocks that provide all the functionality required to build any Fintech solution.
Turn-key Platforms and Portals
When developing a custom solution, we take these building-block services “off the shelf” and connect them. This happens very quickly with a high value to cost ratio.PLATFORMS
- Retail B2C
- Retail Banking
- Enterprise Trading
- Lending
PORTALS
- Retail White Label
- Trading and Operations
- Financial Advisor
Precious Metals Retailing Platform
Trade with over a dozen market makers, deliver globaly, and offer integrated customer storage and IRA support -- all through one powerful platform.
The retail platform let’s you and your developers build a complete web store or mobile app, more quickly and easilly by using our extensive APIs.
Or let the GBITS team build it for you. Our expert teams have implemented dozens of retail portals around the world, in both shopping cart and brokerage style storefronts.
Either way, you can count on the GBI exchange and logistics network to provide better pricing, rapid execution, reduced backend and middle-office costs, and improved compliance, while you concentrate on growing your business.
The GBI Team
GBI’s management team and boards provide a depth of financial services and technology industry leadership experience, which they bring to bear for our clients.
Mr. Feldman was a partner at Goldman Sachs where he was the founder and head of the global infrastructure fund with over $10B under management and served on numerous corporate boards. He was also the co-founder and head of AgCoA, the firm’s agricultural land business. Prior to that he held a variety of investing and banking roles in real estate, including lead developer of Goldman Sachs’ global headquarters at 200 West Street. He received his B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from New York University Law School.
Mr. Custer has over 30 years of experience leading the development of Fintech solutions for companies including American Express, American Airlines, Moody Associates, Wells Fargo Bank, Lloyds of London, Gates Foundation. BACML, UBS, British Royal Mint, SBI of Japan, Equity Trust, INTL FCStone and a magnitude of other B2C and B2B platforms domestically and internationally.
Mr. Scher is responsible for managing Operations, Services and Human Resources for the firm. Before joining he spent 18 years at Merrill Lynch most recently as First Vice President (FVP) of services in ML’s Banking and Brokerage Business. Prior, he was FVP of operations in ML’s proprietary asset management division responsible for retail operations and services of its Mutual Funds, Separate Accounts and Alternative Investment Business.
Mr. Daley is responsible for managing the retail division and marketing operations of the firm. He has a long history in technology, most recently as an independent e-commerce entrepreneur and consultant with clients spanning the financial advisory and alternative investments sector. He was previously at Microsoft where he worked to bring research and novel productions to market, including inside and outside venture investments and IP creation.