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BlackRock gold fund may face penalties over unregistered share issue

BlackRock’s iShares Gold Trust may face penalties and other costs after the US-listed fund sold $296-million in shares earlier this year without properly registering them, the company said in a filing on Monday with the US Securities and Exchange Commission 9SEC).

The fund manager, describing the problem as “inadvertent,” said it would immediately resume issuing shares in the $7.8-billion fund after suspending such issuance last week.