Over the past year at TokenisingStartups, we have watched tokenisation move from something that could still be dismissed as an interesting experiment into an increasingly serious part of the financial infrastructure conversation. Banks are issuing tokenised bonds and exploring tokenised deposits. Asset managers are putting funds on-chain. Exchanges are developing tokenised securities infrastructure. Regulators are creating new frameworks for digital assets. And in the UK, PIS

For UK founders watching tokenisation move from pilot to plumbing, the clearest signal this week came not from a new platform launch but from the world's largest securities depository proving the rails work, followed within days by the IMF warning that proving they work is not the same as proving th

Most of the debate about who gets funded starts and ends with the initial cheque: who wins the pitch, whose warm introduction lands, which fund says yes. It is the right place to start, but it stops the story too early. A less visible shift is under way further up the capital stack, in how venture f

Three operators are now live, a handful of household name private companies have run their first trading events, and the regulatory sandbox has five years left to run. On paper, PISCES looks like a UK reform that is working. Look at what the lawyers advising the companies actually running these even

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 UK founders and investors watching the tokenisation sector professionalise, the biggest news this week did not come from a crypto native platform. It came from BNY, the world's largest custody bank, which has just put the plumbing of fund ownership itself onto a blockchain.

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

Britain will become the first G7 country to issue a sovereign bond on a public blockchain, after HM Treasury confirmed at Mansion House on 15 July that the Digital Gilt Instrument, known as DIGIT, is on track for issuance by the first quarter of 2027.

For UK founders weighing how to reward long serving staff without forcing a sale or an IPO, Moneybox has just supplied a fresh data point, and a useful one, because it is the first British fintech to put real numbers behind the answer.

Structured products are a mainstay of Asian wealth portfolios, and HSBC is one of the region's largest issuers of them. That makes the efficiency case unusually strong. Popular products such as autocallables and equity linked notes have busy lifecycles, with observation dates, coupon triggers and early redemption events that are currently tracked and reconciled separately by the issuer, paying agents and distributors. A digitally native note makes the token itself the single

Picture two founders, both running businesses that make money and make a difference. One has built a climate hardware company and can issue shares like any other startup. The other runs a care provider structured as a Community Interest Company, with an asset lock and a dividend cap baked into its c

CryptoUK is the trade association for the UK cryptoasset and digital finance sector, and its response is worth reading precisely because it stops short of applause. The vision, it agrees, is the right one. Tokenisation can cut reconciliation costs, speed up settlement and collateral movement, strengthen ownership records and open up new issuance and post trade models. The practical issue, as CryptoUK frames it, is whether any of that can be translated into the concrete things

For anyone building in tokenisation in Britain, the hard question has never been whether the technology works. It is whether the UK will be a place worth building it in. A new report from UK Finance, the industry body for the country's banking and finance sector, offers an uncomfortable but useful a

The most important word in the tokenisation story this week was not price or listing. It was voting. On 2 July, Ondo Finance and Broadridge Financial Solutions launched what they describe as the first live third party tokenised US securities operating fully within the existing regulatory perimeter,

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On 1 July the European Union switches off the grace period that has let crypto firms operate while they queued for a licence. From that date, any business providing crypto asset services to clients in the EU without authorisation under the Markets in Crypto Assets regulation, known as MiCA, is break

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

For most of 2023 and 2024, the tokenisation conversation ran on projections and pilots. McKinsey's $16 trillion market by 2030. Bank proofs of concept that never reached production. Consultations with no output. The gap between the narrative and the working infrastructure was wide enough to justify genuine scepticism. What is different now is that the plumbing is being built in places where it cannot easily be unbuilt. DTCC is not a startup running an experiment. It is the or