{"id":547261,"date":"2026-01-26T20:52:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T20:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/26\/valour-wins-fca-approval-to-offer-bitcoin-ether-etps-to-uk-retail-investors\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T20:52:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T20:52:44","slug":"valour-wins-fca-approval-to-offer-bitcoin-ether-etps-to-uk-retail-investors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/26\/valour-wins-fca-approval-to-offer-bitcoin-ether-etps-to-uk-retail-investors\/","title":{"rendered":"Valour wins FCA approval to offer Bitcoin, Ether ETPs to UK retail investors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjYtMDEvMDE5YmZiNTMtOTI0YS03ZTRkLTgzYjUtZGIyYTllNmQzNGZhLmpwZw==.jpg\" alt=\"Valour wins FCA approval to offer Bitcoin, Ether ETPs to UK retail investors\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The rollout comes as UK regulators reopen the retail market to crypto-related products and global issuers expand regulated offerings.<\/p>\n<p>Valour, the UK subsidiary of digital asset company DeFi Technologies, has secured regulatory approval to offer crypto exchange-traded products to retail investors on the London Stock Exchange.<\/p>\n<p>In a Monday notice, DeFi Technologies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/defi-technologies-announces-valour-receives-uk-regulatory-approval-and-begins-offering-select-yield-bearing-crypto-etps-to-uk-retail-investors-via-the-london-stock-exchange-302669806.html\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> the UK\u2019s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) had approved Valour\u2019s exchange-traded products tied to Bitcoin (<a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/bitcoin-price\">BTC<\/a>) and Ether (<a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/ethereum-price\">ETH<\/a>) staking. The offerings, called 1Valour Bitcoin Physical Staking and 1Valour Ethereum Physical Staking, began trading on the London Stock Exchange on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe UK is one of the world&#8217;s most important financial markets, and these approvals broaden our ability to serve UK retail investors with transparent, exchange-listed products that provide straightforward exposure to the evolving digital asset economy,\u201d said Johan Wattenstr\u00f6m, DeFi Technologies chairman and CEO.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/defi-technologies-valour-uk-fca-approval-etps-btc-eth\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rollout comes as UK regulators reopen the retail market to crypto-related products and global issuers expand regulated offerings. Valour, the UK subsidiary of digital asset company DeFi Technologies, has secured regulatory approval to offer crypto exchange-traded products to retail investors on the London Stock Exchange. In a Monday notice, DeFi Technologies said the UK\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":547262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-547261","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}