The group is backed by the City of London Corporation and will spend the next year working on live tokenisation use cases across UK financial markets, starting with tokenised repo. Woolard, who spent eight years as chair of the Financial Conduct Authority before taking on the Champion role in April, is addressing the report to whoever holds the Chancellor's job next, a reminder that this is being built to outlast any one minister. The headline numbers are designed to focus mi

CryptoUK is the trade association for the UK cryptoasset and digital finance sector, and its response is worth reading precisely because it stops short of applause. The vision, it agrees, is the right one. Tokenisation can cut reconciliation costs, speed up settlement and collateral movement, strengthen ownership records and open up new issuance and post trade models. The practical issue, as CryptoUK frames it, is whether any of that can be translated into the concrete things

For years, anyone building in tokenisation in the UK has had to plan around a moving target. The rules were coming, everyone agreed, but their shape was a matter of consultation papers and educated guesses. That ended on 30 June, when the Financial Conduct Authority published the final rules and gui

On 1 July the European Union switches off the grace period that has let crypto firms operate while they queued for a licence. From that date, any business providing crypto asset services to clients in the EU without authorisation under the Markets in Crypto Assets regulation, known as MiCA, is break

The Bank of England, the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority asked the market a very large question in May, and the window to answer it closes on 3 July. Their joint Call for Input, titled The Future of Tokenisation, sets out a shared vision for how tokenised assets s

The first Ways and Means crypto tax hearing in years. For UK founders and funds watching the global contest for capital, the signal matters more than the detail.

On 1 July 2026, four weeks from today, the transitional period under the EU's Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation expires across the bloc. From that date, any firm providing cryptoasset services to EU clients without full MiCA authorisation will be in breach of EU law and must stop. For UK tokenisat

On 1 July 2026, the EU's transitional window for crypto-asset service providers closes. With one month remaining, the headlines have focused on platforms scrambling for licences and stablecoins being delisted. If you are a founder exploring equity tokenisation, or an investor who has backed a company doing so, you may have read those pieces and wondered whether any of it is actually about you. The answer depends on where you sit. If You Are a Founder The most useful thing

The world's most important settlement infrastructure is going digital. On 4 May 2026, the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation confirmed it will begin limited production trades of tokenised securities in July 2026, with a full commercial launch planned for October. The announcement confirms wha

On 15 May 2026, the Prudential Regulation Authority sent a letter to the chief executives of all UK-regulated banks and designated investment firms setting out how it expects them to treat tokenised assets, stablecoins and other cryptoasset exposures from a prudential perspective. Published jointly

There are events that generate press releases. And then there are the conversations that actually move markets forward, held away from the noise, where the people building real infrastructure say what they genuinely think.

FCA's perimeter from October 2027. The seven regulated activities covered include issuing qualifying stablecoins in the UK, safeguarding qualifying cryptoassets, operating a qualifying cryptoasset trading platform, dealing in qualifying cryptoassets as principal or agent, arranging deals in qualifying cry

For UK founders and investors watching the tokenisation of equity markets, one of the clearest signals yet that this space is being given a real regulatory foundation arrived from Washington on 18 May 2026. Bloomberg Law reported that the US Securities and Exchange Commission, under Chair Paul Atkin

On 15 May 2026, the FCA and Bank of England published something the market has been waiting for. Not a pilot. Not a sandbox update. A shared vision — and a roadmap.

On 14 May 2026, the United States Senate Banking Committee passed the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act in a 15-9 vote. Two Democrats joined Republicans to advance the bill, marking the first bipartisan approval of comprehensive US digital asset regulation at committee level. The vote moves the legis

18 May 2026 | Category: LAW, REGULATION, POLICY

Today the US Senate Banking Committee sits down to vote on the Digital Asset Market CLARITY Act, a 309-page piece of legislation that would do something Washington has been promising for years: draw a clear line between which digital assets are securities and which are commodities, and assign regula

A leading global law firm has laid out the structural design problems facing tokenised private fund interests. The UK is now solving the same problems, faster, with a regulator that has just published the rules.

On 30 April 2026, the Financial Conduct Authority finalised its rules for tokenising UK authorised funds. The rules took effect immediately. The UK now has one of the clearest regulatory frameworks for tokenised funds anywhere in the world and the clock is now ticking. Most regulatory milestones arrive with consultation papers and long phase-in periods. PS26/7 did not. On 30 April 2026, the FCA published its policy statement on fund tokenisation and the rules entered force th

The UK government confirmed today that a Financial Services Bill will form part of the 2026 to 2027 parliamentary programme, following the King's Speech delivered this morning. The bill has been anticipated for months. It will fold the Payment Systems Regulator into the Financial Conduct Authority,