Warehousing and physical settlement service planned for Qianhai free trade zone
by Enoch Yiu
South China Morning Post
The Hong Kong gold exchange has teamed up with Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) to launch gold trading services in the Qianhai free trade zone in September, providing custodial and physical settlement service targeted at commercial users and precious metals traders, according to the exchange head.
Haywood Cheung Tak-hay, the honorary permanent president of the 105-year-old Chinese Gold and Silver Exchange Society, said the exchange has teamed up with ICBC to use its gold vault in Qianhai as a temporary bonded warehouse for Hong Kong traders and manufacturers to store their gold. The service is considered useful for companies using gold to fashion decorative items, as the yellow metal can be stored before being fashioned into jewellery and other gold products at factories in Shenzhen.