The EU securities regulator has told the European Commission how it wants the bloc crypto rulebook rewritten, from influencer marketing to DeFi access. It also names a framework for tokenised securities and on-chain settlement as a longer-term aim.

A growing gap is opening up between two very different things that both get called a tokenised stock, and 2026 is the year regulators started drawing the line publicly rather than leaving it to the small print.

A supervisory priority is not a rule change. It is a decision about where inspectors look, and from 2027 they will be looking at how firms use tokenisation with customers.

The US has just moved the tokenisation debate from theory to live market structure. On 17 September 2026, the US Securities and Exchange Commission issued an order giving temporary, conditional relief to certain venues that want to trade tokenised US stocks. The relief applies to “Tokenised Securities Venues” and exempts them, under set conditions, from being treated as an “exchange” under the Exchange Act. That matters because tokenised shares have been held back by a

A dispute that began with AMC's chief executive calling Robinhood's stock tokens "vile" has escalated into a question about whether lent-out collateral is still there. The row is surfacing three genuinely different structures now competing under the same "tokenised equity" label, and the differences

AMC Entertainment chief executive Adam Aron has demanded that Robinhood immediately stop issuing tokens tracking AMC's share price, escalating a public dispute that puts a sharp UK relevant question on the table: what happens to tokenised equity when the underlying issuer never agreed to it.

Whoever ends up writing the rulebook for tokenised markets will decide who gets easy access to them first, and a growing chorus of City figures is warning that the UK's window to write that rulebook itself is closing fast.

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

For UK platforms and law firms watching where the next wave of regulated tokenisation infrastructure lands, Dubai just moved a step closer to the front of the queue. Dubai's Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) and Securitize, the BlackRock backed tokenisation platform, signed a Memorandum of Understanding on 3 September 2026 to advance tokenisation and digital asset infrastructure across the United Arab Emirates and Dubai specifically. The agreement establishes a

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.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission proposed Regulation Crypto Assets on 18 August, opening a 60 day public comment period on a new framework that would let companies raise money through crypto asset offerings without full Securities Act registration. The move lands only days after the regulat

The US Securities and Exchange Commission cancelled its 14 August open meeting, where it had been expected to propose Regulation Crypto Assets, its first formal crypto specific rulemaking, and to unveil a long anticipated innovation exemption for tokenised securities. The regulator cited an unforese

Ten of Europe's largest financial institutions switched on a shared blockchain network for regulated markets on 28 July, and a UK bank is already circling the door.

For founders and investors. If you are a founder weighing up whether to tokenise your equity, or an investor trying to work out what you would actually be buying, this is the place to start. From a legal perspective, it covers: how tokenised equity works, what changes, what does not, and where the rules are heading. Tokenisation is a concept often met with much hype and little knowledge. At its core it is simple. A cryptoasset token is just shorthand for data held on-chai

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.

Tokenisation ran on projections and pilots through 2023 and 2024, but the plumbing is now being built in places where it cannot easily be unbuilt.

When the company that safekeeps more than 22 trillion euros of the world's securities decides tokenisation is the future, the interesting part is not the press release. It is the architecture underneath it.

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.

When standards bodies form in emerging financial markets, the names on the founding membership list matter enormously. They shape the requirements, the definitions and ultimately the infrastructure that gets built. The Tokenized Cash Management Advisory Group, known as TCMAG, is the closest thing th

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