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Global Commodities Holdings to launch nickel trade platform in February
Many investors, traders, consumers and producers abandoned LME nickel after chaotic trading last March saw prices double to a record above $100,000 tonnes in a disorderly market, prompting the exchange to suspend nickel trading for more than a week.
GCH lists major mining groups Glencore, Anglo American, BHP Group and Rio Tinto as shareholders, and is headed by former LME CEO Martin Abbott.
The company, which already offers a physical coal trading platform, said in December its nickel project with buyers and sellers trading directly with each other would go live in the first quarter of this year.
Abbott said nickel prices on the GCH platform will be used to create an index which eventually could be used to create futures that could compete with the LME contract.
The platform will be open to consumers, producers and merchants that are directly involved in the physical market, but not to funds that are not involved in the physical market or algorithmic traders.
It will also be open to Russian metal, which has not been targeted by sanctions imposed on Moscow. However, the decision on accepting Russian nickel will be made by the individual companies on the platform, Abbott said.
Nickel is mainly used to make stainless steel, but its role in electric vehicle batteries is growing.
Alex Shishlo for Rough&Polished