The central bank rectifies the Internet gold market: Institutional agency access thresholds increase

The participants in the “Interim Gold Gold Business Interim Management Measures” (hereinafter referred to as the “Exposure Draft”) drafted by the Central Bank’s financial market in recent days should report their opinions before May 11th.

The Exposure Draft specifies the division of labor in the Internet gold market: The bank is responsible for providing financial accounts for financial institutions, and is qualified as a market maker for the interbank gold market in the Shanghai Gold Exchange. The internet agency is clearly a consignment agency and may not provide gold accounts for liquidation. Settlement, delivery, transfer, multi-level agency. And the registered capital of Internet institutions should not be less than 30 million yuan, and must be paid-in currency capital. At the same time, they should have staff who are familiar with gold business.

In recent years, the rise of Internet gold, an online financial management model, has seen banks, the Internet, and traditional companies enter the market. According to the shareholder background of the Internet gold platform, it can be roughly divided into four categories: the Internet system, representing Alibaba.com, and Tencent.com. , Jingdong Gold; traditional gold leading enterprises, representing the enterprise Zijin Mining's Zijin Gold Line, Shandong Zhaojin's Gold Rush Park; corporate cross-border systems, such as Justin Treasure, Gome Gold; mainstream venture capital systems such as Gold Wallet, AU Gold stewards.

For this draft, Tencent responded that the draft of the Exposure scrutinizes the internet gold business from various perspectives such as business division of labor, qualifications of the industry, etc., and points out a new direction for the development of the industry. Tencent supports this. Tencent Micro Gold Business is a gold service jointly launched by TenPay and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China. The user account is maintained by the bank. Clearing, settlement, delivery and other services are all completed at the bank.

At the same time, Yang Hao, CEO of Gold Wallet responded that the gold purse will also respond to supervision at the first time. Currently, it is actively promoting cooperation with financial institutions and will formally sign a strategic cooperation agreement. I believe in the future, on the orderly and compliance road, gold Wallet will bring more value and better experience to the industry and users.

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