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Fintech startups have only been able to corner a small part of the value in gold-linked financial products like gold loans and digital gold even as gold prices have shot up. Regulatory changes may pose a further challenge.

India’s fintech sector has finally been bitten by the gold bug. In October last year, tech giant Google signed a deal with Muthoot Finance, India’s largest non-bank gold loan provider, to offer gold loans through Google Pay. Around the same time, Walmart-backed fintech PhonePe tied up with Jar, a gold-focused investment platform, to launch a new daily savings product based on digital gold. Also, payments firm BharatPe rolled out a new investment platform with digital gold as its first product. All signs that gold could be a new play for fintechs at a time when revenue is …