Two start-ups announced funding on 15 October 2026 to let holders of tokenised funds get cash out faster. Both treat exit as a paid service, and that has a lesson for anyone planning tokenised equity.

BNY says it completed a triparty repo using a tokenised two-year US Treasury note, settled in minutes rather than a day. What was not disclosed matters as much as what was.

Federated Hermes plans its first tokenised fund share classes for early 2027, issued itself and sold through existing brokerages. The funds and blockchains are not yet named.

A $20 million fund financing UAE small businesses through Luxembourg-issued notes on the Canton Network is Black Manta's second tokenisation deal since mid-August, and the clearest sign yet of a firm using one regulatory toolkit to reach further asset classes and geographies.

The shares being distributed are the ordinary institutional class, not a token. A tokenised version of the same fund exists and holds around 10,400 dollars.

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.

ARK has put an existing closed-end fund onchain without changing the terms on which investors can get their money out. For anyone weighing a tokenised fund structure, the repurchase rules matter more than the blockchain.

The European Central Bank has begun preparatory work to invest a portion of its own funds directly in tokenised bonds, with every purchase settling in central bank money through Pontes, the settlement system the Eurosystem switched on the same day.

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.

For UK founders and investors tracking whether tokenised equity can become a genuine mainstream distribution channel, Robinhood's own chain is producing an inconvenient data point this month.

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

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

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

CoinMarketCap has expanded its professional data API with seven new endpoints dedicated to real world assets, giving developers and institutions a single reference point for tracking tokenised stocks, government bonds, exchange traded funds and real estate as the on-chain RWA market approaches 34 bi

A quieter but structurally important piece of tokenisation news broke this week away from the equity headlines. Two infrastructure providers proved that digital assets, stablecoins and tokenised bank deposits can now settle against each other automatically, without the manual reconciliation that has

Ondo Finance, one of the tokenisation platforms UK infrastructure builders watch most closely for signals on where real world asset architecture is heading, has quietly abandoned its original plan to build a full blockchain and replaced it with a narrower execution layer instead.

Fragmentation across ERC 1400 and ERC 3643, where every platform ends up with its own proprietary compliance logic and vendor lock in, has become enough of a problem that competing platforms are now collaborating to fix it. Brickken, DigiShares, Bit2Me, Dekalabs, Hacken and several others, have backed ERC 7943, a new modular standard co authored by Brickken's Dario Lo Buglio, currently under review at the Ethereum Magicians forum. It separates identity, compliance and permiss

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

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

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.