A-Mark Precious Metals, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a precious metals trading company worldwide. It operates through Wholesale Trading & Ancillary Services, Secured Lending, and Direct Sales segments. The company provides gold, silver, platinum, and palladium in the form of bars, plates, powder, wafers, grains, ingots, and coins, as well as distributes gold and silver coins and bars from sovereign and private mints. It also offers financing and other services relating to the purchase and sale of bullion and numismatics; provides storage solutions for precious metals and numismatic coins for financial institutions, dealers, investors, and collectors; and offers a range of logistics services, including storage, shipping, handling, receiving, processing, packing, and inventorying of precious metals and custom coins. In addition, the company provides custom fabricated gold and silver bullion and other specialty products, as well as various services comprising consignment and customized finance programs. It serves mints, manufacturers and fabricators, refiners, coin and bullion dealers, e-commerce retailers, banks and other financial institutions, commodity brokerage houses, retail customers, industrial users of precious metals, investors, and collectors. The company was founded in 1965 and is headquartered in El Segundo, California.