"I just wanted to let ordinary people trade gold bars" - how BullionVault was built

``When he's not arresting people, or perfecting the art of French furniture polishing - his other favourite hobby - the father-of-three runs his online peer-to-peer business, BullionVault, allowing individuals to invest their money in gold, and more recently, silver... And it has been a staggering success. Paul now has 50,000 customers, from 173 countries, holding approximately £1.2 billion in stored bullion. In fact, with more than 32 tonnes of gold and 432 tonnes of silver bullion, website users are already holding larger reserves than most of the world's central banks, he says.''