Tokenized Gold: FCA Drafts Rules to Defend London’s Lead
The FCA's push ties tokenized gold to London's 70% share of global notional gold trading and a UK plan that projects digitization could add £33B to annual output.
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The FCA's push ties tokenized gold to London's 70% share of global notional gold trading and a UK plan that projects digitization could add £33B to annual output.
Institutions could gain a clearer compliance path into digital bullion, giving London a way to preserve the legal and financial activity around a market increasingly contested by China.
PAXG and XAUT cleared $90.7B in a single quarter — a setup that turns tokenized gold from a niche reserve trade into a structural allocation leg on its own.
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