Tokenised equity is moving from experiment to infrastructure Tokenised equity is moving from experiment to infrastructure Tokenisation is no longer limited to conference demonstrations. Banks, asset managers, exchanges and regulators are now putting live products and settlement systems into production. Currently, the most activity today concerns tokenised funds, bonds, deposits and private-market assets, not ordinary public-company shares trading freely on a blockchain. Tok

Crowdcube says £543 million of secondary share sales are in its PISCES pipeline, a figure it says could reach £750 million across 29 listings.

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. 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

Amanda Staveley joining the board of a London finance firm is the kind of move that says, quietly but clearly, “We’re looking beyond the UK now.”

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.

Tokenised markets need more than headlines. They need systems that can issue, trade, settle, and safeguard digital assets in a compliant way. tZERO’s latest funding news points to that harder task.

Standfirst: The London based tokenisation platform has spent the summer methodically collecting fiduciary and transfer agency licences across four jurisdictions, a strategy that says as much about the shape of the tokenised asset market as any single product launch would.

Hiten Patel, Oliver Wyman's global head of financial infrastructure, technology and services, has put a specific number on a question that UK tokenisation platforms, custodians and investors keep asking in vaguer terms: how much of today's financial market infrastructure revenue is actually at stake

A story tip landed in our inbox this week pointing to a piece in Private Markets Profile on what it called building investable regions: the idea that tokenisation can widen who is able to invest in a given market by removing geography as a barrier to access. It is a genuinely useful frame, and it ra

Aberdeen Investments has partnered with Finloop Finance to distribute a tokenised version of its Global Private Markets strategy to professional investors in Hong Kong, in one of the clearest signs yet that established asset managers are treating tokenisation as a distribution tool rather than a sid

Intercontinental Exchange, the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, has agreed to invest in tZero's latest financing round and named the tokenisation firm a design partner for a new NYSE affiliated tokenised securities platform, in one of the clearest signals yet that mainstream exchange o

The London Stock Exchange has agreed a partnership with Payward, the parent company of crypto exchange Kraken, to bring the UK's biggest listed companies onto the blockchain. Under the deal announced on Tuesday, Payward will issue the 100 largest London-listed companies as xStocks, its tokenised equ

Asset manager Bitwise has launched a set of automated portfolios built on Coinbase's tokenised US stocks, letting eligible non-US investors follow preset investment strategies while keeping their tokens in their own wallets rather than handing custody to a fund manager.

Franklin Templeton has extended its flagship tokenised money market fund into Asia, partnering with Hong Kong based HashKey Exchange to give digital asset investors across the region access to a blockchain based US government liquidity product through a licensed exchange for the first time.

UK fintech founders raising this year are working against the toughest backdrop in a decade, and the data released this week makes the scale of that shift hard to ignore. The question worth asking is not whether the number is bad. It plainly is. It is what the shape of the decline tells us about who

India will issue its first tokenised corporate bond next month, according to Reuters sources, as the country tests blockchain based instant settlement through a small pilot deal that places it alongside Europe and Hong Kong among jurisdictions actively experimenting with tokenised debt issuance.

Digital Prime Technologies, a US based institutional technology provider for digital asset lending markets, announced a strategic investment from LTP, a global institutional digital asset prime brokerage, on 12 August. LTP joins existing strategic backers EquiLend, Galaxy Digital and Marex, the Lond

Private company shareholders in the UK have a new, concrete answer to the question of when they can actually sell, and the first company to test it is not a startup at all, which is exactly why founders should pay attention.

Bank of America has appointed Sonali Theisen as head of its global digital assets platform, alongside Adam Dixon as global head of digital asset transformation and Kevin Milsom as head of platforms AI transformation, according to Bloomberg reporting confirmed across multiple outlets on 17 and 18 Jul