UniCredit is shopping for a technology partner to build digital asset custody and brokerage infrastructure, a move that would let one of Italy's largest banks hold and trade crypto and tokenised instruments directly for wealth clients in Italy, Germany and Austria.

Ondo Finance activated round the clock minting and redemption for ten additional tokenised US stocks on 17 July, including AMD and Intel, taking the total number of always available assets on its platform to 16. The move makes Ondo the first tokenisation platform to offer genuine round the clock pri

One of Britain's best known fintech names is trimming its workforce, and the reason it gives says a good deal about where the sector is heading. Starling Bank is cutting about 130 jobs, roughly three per cent of a workforce of more than 4,000 people, as it restructures its banking and technology tea

The everything exchange now puts a public price on private companies before they list. For founders, the catch sits in what these contracts do not carry.

For most of the last decade, digital assets and institutional finance sat in different rooms. One talked about disruption and the death of intermediaries. The other talked about fiduciary duty and operational risk. A new whitepaper from Arcesium, the financial technology firm spun out of the hedge f

The backers include HSBC, BNP Paribas and Citadel Securities, a sign that the institutions which run capital markets now want to own the rails underneath them.

On the same day that two giants of market infrastructure moved deeper into digital assets, a Spanish wholesale custodian quietly switched on crypto custody for other banks. On its own it is a modest announcement. As part of a pattern, it is the story.

Picture an angel who backed a Leeds founder's seed round eighteen months ago. The company is growing, a later investor has offered to buy some of the angel's shares, and the angel would like to take a little money off the table. There is a worry in the room. Those shares carry SEIS relief, and SEIS comes with a three year holding rule. Does selling now blow up the tax benefit? For a long time this question got waved away as too complicated, or treated as a genuine unknown

The venture capital industry runs on reputation. Relationships are currency. Warm introductions open doors that cold calls cannot. And dissent about how the system works can be career-limiting in an industry small enough for word to travel fast.

For the past three years, tokenised finance has had a structural problem: the infrastructure for digital assets and the infrastructure for traditional securities have lived in separate systems, requiring separate workflows, separate reconciliation, and separate governance. Broadridge, the post-trade

Litigation finance has long been one of the more opaque corners of alternative assets. Returns are uncorrelated, the underlying exposure is contractual rather than market-driven, and access has historically been restricted to a small number of specialist funds and institutional allocators. A new iss

Jamie Marshall at CMS makes the case that tokenised funds are a historic opportunity for Scotland and the UK. The argument deserves a wider hearing, and the timing is tighter than most realise.

The numbers are in for Q1 2026, and the headline story is straightforward: UK equity investment is holding steady at roughly £6 billion per quarter, the UK remains Europe's dominant destination for venture capital, and the market is, on the surface, healthy.

On 8 May 2026, Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook delivered a speech at the Central Bank of West African States conference in Dakar, Senegal, that covered tokenisation in terms usually reserved for established financial market infrastructure. She confirmed that tokenised assets in the United States

Midas and Symbiotic have built an RFQ-based liquidity layer with up to 40 million dollars of capacity, letting investors redeem tokenised assets instantly on chain.

The Arrangement OKX, one of the world's largest crypto exchanges by derivatives volume, has integrated BlackRock's BUIDL fund as eligible margin collateral for institutional clients. Standard Chartered acts as custodian. This is the first time a globally systemically important bank (G-SIB) has served in a custodial role in an arrangement of this kind.

How the RWA Market Crossed $29 Billion and Why the Real Growth Is Still to Come Three years ago, tokenised real-world assets were a niche within a niche: a small group of experiments by crypto-native firms testing whether traditional financial instruments could be represented on public blockchains. Today, the market has grown nearly 20x to exceed $29 billion in on-chain value, institutional players ranging from BlackRock to JPMorgan are deploying live products, and at least

HM Treasury unveiled a plan on 21 April 2026, during UK Fintech Week, to bring stablecoins, tokenised bank deposits and conventional electronic payments under one legal roof.

Plume employees can now elect to receive a portion of their monthly salary in shares of WisdomTree's WTGXX, a tokenised, SEC-regulated money market fund that currently yields around 4–5% annually.

Lise received authorisation from French regulator ACPR, in coordination with the AMF, in late 2025 under the EU DLT Pilot Regime, becoming the first institution in Europe licensed to operate a fully tokenised equity exchange. Unlike hybrid models that tokenise existing securities while keeping legacy infrastructure in place, Lise has built a single on-chain system that combines issuance, trading, settlement, and share registry.