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UK's Biggest Platform Opens Crypto Door

Britain's Biggest Investment Platform Now Sells Bitcoin Wrappers — the Same Week the LSE's Tokens Excluded Britain

Verified · 4 Sept 2026BitcoinSep 4, 2026

Hargreaves Lansdown is opening Bitcoin and Ether ETN trading to millions of UK retail investors following the FCA's retail ban lift.

Hargreaves Lansdown, the UK's largest retail investment platform, opened trading in Bitcoin and Ether exchange-traded notes — debt instruments that track the coins rather than funds holding them — following the FCA's lifting of its retail ban, per coverage, with Bitwise confirmed as a partner on the Bitcoin product. The launch lands the same week the London Stock Exchange announced tokenised versions of its top 100 stocks that UK investors cannot access.

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