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.

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 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

Tokenisation is reshaping how startups raise capital and manage equity. For founders navigating this evolving landscape, understanding the essentials is crucial. This article addresses common questions about tokenisation, offering clear, practical insights without the usual jargon. It aims to provide a grounded perspective on what tokenisation means for startup founders and investors alike. What Is Tokenisation and Why Does It Matter to Founders? Tokenisation refers to

Nasdaq is putting $100 million into Payward, the parent company of crypto exchange Kraken, valuing the business at $21 billion and extending a partnership aimed at bringing regulated tokenised equities to market in the second quarter of 2027.

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.

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

Securitize and Socios.com, the fan engagement platform owned by Chiliz Group, announced a partnership on 2 September to develop regulated tokenised equity offerings representing minority stakes in professional sports teams, under the new Socios Equity Token category that Chiliz unveiled in late Augu

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

For UK founders and investors still treating tokenised equity as a slow burn regulatory story, the retail adoption numbers out this week are a reminder that the market is not waiting for permission. The total number of holders of tokenised stocks climbed to 1.31 million, more than double the figure

For UK founders and investors wondering whether tokenisation infrastructure will be built by crypto native platforms or by regulated City institutions, this week's announcement from AIM listed Marechale Capital offered a clear answer.

A profitable digital asset exchange putting its own shares onto a blockchain is a small operational milestone dressed up as a big signal, and this week Bullish gave UK founders watching the tokenised equity space a live example of what eating your own cooking looks like at listed company scale.

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

tZERO has unveiled a next generation version of its tokenised securities platform, bringing onboarding, investing, trading, custody and payments together into a single connected experience rather than the fragmented set of tools that has typically greeted new investors in digital securities. The lau

July 2026 in Review. Britain opened July accused of being behind on tokenisation. It closed the month with its biggest institutional coalition yet, a date for its first digital bond, and the world's largest custody bank moving fund ownership onto a blockchain. UK The month's UK story is really one long rebuttal, delivered in real time, to a single sentence. On 6 July, UK Finance published a report written by Oliver Wyman with a blunt headline finding: Britain is behind other

Two UK based tokenisation firms have just picked up Ripple as a shareholder rather than simply a partner, a sign of how much of the plumbing behind tokenised collateral markets is being built by British regulated firms rather than imported from elsewhere.

For a scaling UK company whose staff and early investors are sitting on vested shares, the historic answer to when can I actually sell has too often been simple: nowhere, until an IPO or an acquisition years down the line arrives, if it ever does. Monzo is the example founders point to most often, a

SCRYPT, a Swiss licensed institutional digital asset infrastructure provider, has begun using Franklin Templeton's BENJI token, the tokenised share class of the Franklin OnChain U.S. Government Money Fund, to manage its own treasury operations. The move gives SCRYPT round the clock, on chain access