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UK EQUITY TOKENISATION NEWS
What your custody platform needs to fund before authorisation
The prudential rules set a minimum. The firm's own risk assessment may set a higher figure. The funding plan has to keep both in place from authorisation onwards. These are three separate questions, and a founder needs an answer to each.
Palvinder Gill
1 day ago5 min read
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Startup News
Understanding Tokenised Cap Table Guide. The Future of Business?
A forward looking, practical guide to tokenised cap tables for founders and investors, covering what they record, the benefits, the downsides and the steps to adopt one.
Shawn Jhanji
1 hour ago4 min read
Scarlet Series B lands $50m to certify AI medical devices
London's Scarlet has raised $50 million to speed up approval of AI medical devices, and its figures show how review time shapes a founder's release pace.
Shawn Jhanji
2 hours ago3 min read
How to sell shares in a UK private company: every route to liquidity compared
Founders, staff and early investors in UK startups now have more ways to sell shares before an exit. This guide compares private sales, company buybacks, tender offers, crowdfunding secondary markets, PISCES and tokenised shares.
Shawn Jhanji
1 day ago7 min read
Law & regulation
What your custody platform needs to fund before authorisation
The prudential rules set a minimum. The firm's own risk assessment may set a higher figure. The funding plan has to keep both in place from authorisation onwards. These are three separate questions, and a founder needs an answer to each.
Palvinder Gill
1 day ago5 min read
Building custody for tokenised shares while further rules develop
CASS 6 already sets the baseline for holding tokenised securities. What is still to come is an additional framework specific to them. A platform can design and test its custody model now, without waiting for that framework.
Palvinder Gill
4 days ago5 min read
Treasury names six lead managers for DIGIT, the UK's first digital gilt
HM Treasury has named Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds, Morgan Stanley, NatWest and RBC Capital Markets as joint lead managers for DIGIT, the UK's first digitally native gilt, with issuance targeted for early 2027.
Shawn Jhanji
5 days ago3 min read
RWA & TOKENISATION
Understanding Tokenised Cap Table Guide. The Future of Business?
A forward looking, practical guide to tokenised cap tables for founders and investors, covering what they record, the benefits, the downsides and the steps to adopt one.
Shawn Jhanji
1 hour ago4 min read
UK Fintech Tokenisation: Trends to Watch
Tokenisation is reshaping the financial landscape, particularly within the UK fintech sector. As digital assets and blockchain technology mature, the ability to represent ownership rights and financial instruments as tokens is unlocking new opportunities for startups and investors alike. This article explores the key trends in fintech tokenisation UK, offering a grounded perspective on how this innovation is evolving and what it means for the future of finance.
TS Team
6 days ago7 min read
Spiko raises $90m for tokenised cash funds, including in sterling
Spiko, the London and Paris tokenised cash fund issuer, raised a $90 million Series B led by NEA on 6 October 2026, taking its total funding to $120 million.
Shawn Jhanji
6 days ago4 min read
INVESTING & FINANCE
SEIS and EIS head into the 28 October Budget with record SEIS use
SEIS raised a record 276 million pounds in 2024-25 while EIS plateaued and VCT relief fell to 20 per cent. This is what is confirmed about the 28 October Budget, and what UK founders can ask before it.
Shawn Jhanji
1 day ago4 min read
Are family offices still patient capital when exits stall?
A 2026 RBC and Campden Wealth survey found that 47 per cent of attempted fund exits stalled. This Open Question asks what that means for family offices as patient capital, and for UK founders raising from them.
Shawn Jhanji
1 day ago3 min read
SEIS Shares, Tax Relief and Liquidity at Year Three?
Every week this publication covers another piece of UK market infrastructure edging tokenisation from pilot toward permanence, a sandbox settlement, a feedback statement, a new PISCES admission. Almost none of it touches the part of the UK's startup finance system that most badly needs a liquidity answer: the earliest, smallest, highest risk shareholdings created under the Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme.
SEIS is the most generous tax incentive available to any investor
TS Team
3 days ago5 min read
THE LEGAL VIEW
Tokenised Shares and EIS: How Much of the Liquidity Story Can You Tell at Issue?
A tax insight from gunnercooke on how tokenising shares interacts with EIS and SEIS relief, and how much of the liquidity story you can safely tell at the point of issue. A tax perspective, not legal advice.
Sep 1625 min read
Borderless Assets, Not Borderless Investors: Who Can Invest in Tokenised Equity?
As the equities markets are generally moving towards tokenisation, a common question is how the marketing of tokenised equity differs from traditional equity.
In this respect, it is a mistake to focus on the “tokenised” element of tokenised equity. In the UK, tokenisation does not, from a purely legal analysis, expand the target market to whom shares can be sold. Where a token represents rights to, or interests in, an underlying share, it is very likely going to be treated as
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EDITOR PICKS
Chris Woolard's Taskforce Could Reshape Access to Startup Capital
Chris Woolard has spent most of his career deciding how UK financial markets get regulated. This month he published his first report on how they get rebuilt.
Securitize's CEO Says Public Companies Have Lost Track of Their Own Shareholders. His Fix Is an Onchain Register
Carlos Domingo, co-founder and chief executive of Securitize, has a blunt pitch for public companies: you probably do not know who owns your own stock, and blockchain can fix that. He is using his own company's shares to make the case.
Citi Confirms Bitcoin Custody Launch Under New Custody+ Platform
For UK founders and investors watching which model wins the tokenisation infrastructure race, this week's confirmation from one of the world's largest custodian banks is a bigger signal than another platform launch.
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Lloyds tokenisation survey finds 71 per cent of senior UK finance leaders expect it to reshape finance
Lloyds polled 100 senior leaders at the UK's largest financial institutions and found technology investment priorities rising fast. The survey measures expectation, not live use.
Ondo Launches Intelligent Tokenised Portfolios Modelled on BlackRock Investment Strategies
Ondo Finance has launched Ondo Intelligent Portfolios, onchain model portfolios built on BlackRock strategies, marking a shift from tokenised cash equivalents toward multi-asset onchain products.
The people closest to an industry are often the last to see how much it can change
The people closest to an industry are often the last to see how much it can change. That’s the hard truth behind many conversations about tokenisation right now.
Plenty of banks, funds, exchanges, property firms and large companies are already testing blockchain-based systems. Some have pilot projects. Some have small teams working on “digital assets”. Some are setting up two-track models, where old systems keep running while tokenised systems sit beside them.
Yet inside t
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