Basel III14 Oct 2025 11:36
Although it's taken a while to feed through, I think Basel III has had an impact on the POG. Basel III treats physical, allocated gold as a 0% risk-weighted, Tier 1 asset, similar to cash and Treasuries, while paper gold (ETFs, unallocated accounts) is excluded or has lower weighting under the Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR) and Net Stable Funding Ratio (NSFR). This elevates the status of physical gold as a reserve asset and is expected to increase institutional demand for allocated holdings, boosting its perceived value and potentially reducing liquidity in paper gold markets.