For UK founders and investors watching whether tokenisation infrastructure gets built from scratch or bolted onto rails the world already trusts, this week's answer came from two of the biggest names in global banking. Standard Chartered and HSBC have completed the first live cross border transactio

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.

Real world assets on Robinhood Chain reached an active market value of about $70 million as of 25 July, a roughly fivefold jump from the low tens of millions of dollars the network held only two weeks earlier, according to onchain data reported by CoinDesk. The jump is one of the clearest signals ye

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

Cantor Fitzgerald and Securitize announced a partnership on 15 July to bring initial public offerings and follow-on share offerings onto blockchain infrastructure, extending tokenisation into the point where companies actually raise capital rather than just the secondary trading that has dominated t

Financial technology provider Broadridge published survey findings this month showing that tokenisation has become a strategic priority for 84 per cent of the financial services executives it polled, a number that turns a debate long dominated by pilots and position papers into something closer to a

After spending Tuesday at the London Blockchain Institutional Tokenisation Summit, hosted at DLA Piper, I came away with a different feeling from the one the report leaves you with. Not a contradiction of it, but a serious counterweight. In a room full of asset managers, custodians, market makers, platforms and lawyers, the mood was neither hype nor anxiety. It was practical, curious, and quietly confident. The prevailing view was that the UK's regulatory environment, and the

Picture a founder outside the story everyone is telling. She is not building a large language model. She is building a climate hardware business in Sheffield, or a healthtech tool in Cardiff, with early revenue and a plan to grow. This week the British Business Bank published the numbers that descri

For years the frustration voiced by British founders and the people who build alongside them has been the same. You can grow a company worth billions in London and still find that nobody who helped create that value can realise any of it, short of selling to an overseas buyer or waiting out an IPO t

One Direction: the monthly tokenisation roundup. June 2026 edition.

There is a neat circularity to the week ahead in New York. Securitize, the firm that turns funds run by BlackRock, Apollo and VanEck into blockchain tokens, is itself about to become a publicly traded share. On 29 June its merger partner holds the shareholder vote. If it passes, as expected, the com

On 30 June, something quietly ends for anyone who owns shares in a private British company. Until that date, trading those shares on the London Stock Exchange's Private Securities Market, the venue built under the UK's new PISCES regime, costs nothing in transaction fees. From 1 July, the first real

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