Scope Prime, the institutional arm of Rostro Group, has completed the full rollout of DIGIXAU, a gold CFD product that runs continuously, including on evenings and weekends, the company said today (Thursday).The move extends the firm's existing gold trading access beyond conventional market hours. Institutional clients can now hedge gold positions, adjust exposure and manage risk as events unfold, without waiting for markets to reopen. The product is structured as a CFD, keeping it within Scope Prime's over-the-counter liquidity framework.Weekend Trading Closes a Market GapTraditional gold markets shut down on Friday evening and resume late Sunday, leaving a window where traders are exposed to news and price risk without the ability to respond. Scope Prime said DIGIXAU closes that window by maintaining a continuous order book through the weekend. The launch comes after Scope Prime updated its gold spread structure in January, citing sustained repricing in precious metals driven by persistent volatility."Amid unprecedented global economic uncertainty, access to safe-haven assets has never been more important," Daniel Lawrance, Chief Executive Officer at Scope Prime, commented. "DIGIXAU provides what traditional gold products cannot - the ability to trade and manage positions at any time, including weekends. As more market-moving events occur outside standard hours, uninterrupted access is increasingly critical."Gold's role as a safe-haven asset has grown significantly, with the metal testing record highs earlier this year and volumes surging across CFD platforms. A Finance Magnates analysis in January argued that gold's shifting market dynamics are forcing liquidity providers to rethink how their products are structured, pointing to growing client demand outside standard trading windows as one of the key pressure points.Lawrance also pointed to internal infrastructure work as what made the full rollout possible. "Recent enhancements to our crypto CFD liquidity, pricing and depth have enabled us to deliver this product across our full institutional client base," he added.Crypto Architecture Carries Over to GoldDIGIXAU sits within Scope Prime's crypto CFD infrastructure, a structure the company has been building out over the past year. The product is offered through MMCD Resources Ltd, regulated by the Financial Services Authority in the Seychelles, the same entity that governs Scope Prime's digital asset CFD business. That framework, built to support continuous trading in crypto markets, is what makes 24/7 gold exposure technically feasible in a CFD format.Scope Prime expanded its crypto CFD offering to 77 new instruments and moved to round-the-clock trading in August 2025, and subsequently integrated liquidity from major crypto exchanges and market makers to deepen its order book and improve pricing. Rostro had also flagged wider ambitions in digital asset infrastructure, with the launch of prime services for crypto CFDs in mid-2025 alongside plans to add spot trading capabilities.Rising Gold Volumes Provide the BackdropThe broader market context supports demand for the product. Gold has become the dominant trading instrument at major CFD brokers, with volumes more than doubling at some platforms as the metal extended a sustained rally. Market participants are increasingly trading on geopolitical and macroeconomic developments that tend to emerge outside regular market hours, a pattern that reinforces the case for always-available products.Scope Prime has been broadening its product mix across asset classes in recent months, including the launch of futures and options trading for institutional clients in February 2026, which added on-exchange access to metals, indices, and soft commodities. Rostro Group, for its part, secured a Category 5 license in the UAE in late 2025, extending its regulatory footprint as the group continues to expand into new markets. This article was written by Damian Chmiel at www.financemagnates.com.

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