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There are too many known cases of allocated gold held at a bank being sold by the custodian, and the custodian having great difficulty finding gold to return to the owner. Long delays, different bar numbers, different manufacture dates etc. The LBMA and COMEX operate a fractional reserve...

Now you mention gold you have my full attention o.t cannot re-hypo gold can you. there is one simple step that IBKR could take to make it feel safer and grow customer base exponentially, that is to allow optional Direct Registration of shares. Then in event of black swan event it should...

DEF and IB_AN Thanks for your explanations but to solve the 'loss of faith' issue, not in your company but loss of faith in the system. There is a simple solution that has been proposed on your own web site. that is to register shares in 'client name' rather than 'street name' This...