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Gold investing for Egyptians abroad

Trusted, regulated ways to hold gold from outside Egypt. Honest about what isn't possible too.

First, the honest part

There is no compliant cross-border rail today that lets you buy physical gold abroad and have it delivered into Egypt. Egyptian customs treats incoming gold above a small allowance as a dutiable import. So this page is about gold you can hold from where you live — in regulated EU/UK/US instruments — not about getting bars to Cairo.

Three regulated options worth knowing

Royal Mint Gold (RMAU)

London-listed gold ETC backed by physical bars in The Royal Mint vault. Buyable through most EU/UK brokers (Trade Republic, Interactive Brokers, Degiro). Low ongoing fee. Regulated by the FCA.

BullionVault

UK-regulated platform for buying allocated physical bullion stored in vaults in London, Zurich, New York, Toronto, or Singapore. You own a serial-numbered share of real bars. Withdrawal in physical form is possible (with shipping cost) but most users hold and trade in-vault.

Wahed Invest (gold sleeve)

Sharia-compliant robo-advisor with a gold allocation option. UK and US authorized. Useful if you want gold inside a halal-screened portfolio rather than a single ETC.

How to actually buy

Open a brokerage account in your country of residence, transfer in by SEPA / bank wire, search for the ticker (RMAU on LSE for the Royal Mint product), and place a market order. Hold inside the brokerage; selling later converts back to your home currency, which you can then send home through the corridor we compare on the dashboard.

What to avoid

Anyone offering to ship physical gold from Dubai or Saudi to your family in Egypt 'for a small fee' is almost certainly running a customs-evasion scheme that puts you and them on the hook. Same for Telegram channels promising 'tokenized Egyptian gold' — none of these are FRA-regulated.