A-Mark Precious Metals, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a precious metals trading company. It operates in three segments: Wholesale Sales & Ancillary Services, Secured Lending, and Direct-to-Consumer. The company sells gold, silver, platinum, and palladium in the form of bars, plates, powders, wafers, grains, ingots, and coins, as well as markets precious metal products on television, radio, and the internet, as well as through customer outreach services. It also provides financing and other services relating to the purchase and sale of bullion and numismatics; provides storage solution for precious metals and numismatic coins; and offers a range of logistics services, including storage, delivering, shipping, handling, receiving, processing, drop-shipping services, packing, and inventorying of precious metals and custom coins, as well as TDS's storage and asset protection services. 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; and a platform of turn-key logistics services. Further, it engages in the commodity hedging, as well as borrowing and lending transactions. The company serves mints, industrial manufacturers and fabricators, encompassing electronics and component parts companies, refiners, coin and bullion dealers, e-commerce retailers, banks and other financial institutions, commodity brokerage houses, retail customers, industrial users of precious metals, investors, investment advisors, collectors, and retail customers. It has operations in the United States, rest of North America, Europe, the Asia Pacific, Africa, and Australia. A-Mark Precious Metals, Inc. was founded in 1965 and is headquartered in El Segundo, California.