IBS Metals
Integrated Brokerage Services, LLC conducts its over the counter precious metals
brokerage operations under the trade name IBS Metals. As a precious metals broker,
IBS Metals introduces its customer accounts to its affiliate
Alliance Financial, LLC, a principal Precious Metals Market Maker. Our clients include
private and commerical accounts; Security Broker Dealers, Futures Commission Merchants,
Introducing Brokers, Commodity Trading Advisors, Commodity Pool Operators,
money managers and other brokers.
Alliance Financial, LLC was founded in 1997 to provide Bullion Banking and
Principal Market Making services in Physical Precious Metals. Since its
inception, Alliance has successfully completed over $3 Billion in non-leveraged
physical precious metals transactions. In 2001, Alliance bridged the gap between OTC physical
precious metals/foreign currencies and standardized, exchange-traded markets by launching its
revolutionary, proprietary, internet-based physical dealing system, TheOTCDesk.com.
Alliance, as a joint partner developer of The Broker's Desk™ System, has made theOTCdesk.com
technology accessible through www.TheBrokersDesk.com, a multi-platform trading portal providing immediate
online access to a full range of investment products including: Futures, Foreign Exchange, Metals,
Equities, Options, Managed Accounts, Hedge Funds, Mutual Funds, and Fixed Income.
to bridge the gap between Over-the-Counter physical precious metals/foreign currencies and standardized,
exchange-traded markets.
IBS Metals customers gain access to Alliance's extensive Over-the-Counter trading network, consisting
of highly capitalized bullion banks, market makers, dealers, refiners,
fabricators, money managers and private clients. This broad base of trading
partners enables IBS Metals to provide Market Making coverage in over 325
precious metals products.