For a sector that has spent years justifying its infrastructure ambitions to sceptical capital markets, Securitize's announcement this week that it will list on Nasdaq at a $1.25 billion valuation is more than a corporate milestone. It is the first time a company built entirely around tokenised secu

For anyone watching the tokenisation industry and asking when the commercial reality catches up with the institutional enthusiasm, Securitize's first quarter 2026 results published on 20 May provide the clearest signal yet. The company posted record revenue of $19.5 million for Q1 2026, up 39% year

Tokenisation has, for the most part, been built in parallel to traditional financial infrastructure rather than on top of it. Separate systems, separate workflows, separate reconciliation. On 12 May 2026, Broadridge Financial Solutions announced an expansion of its tokenisation capabilities that dir

There are events that generate press releases. And then there are the conversations that actually move markets forward, held away from the noise, where the people building real infrastructure say what they genuinely think.

The tokenisation landscape has moved quickly. New rules, new platforms, and significant market milestones have arrived almost weekly in 2026. Whether you are a founder exploring the idea of tokenised equity for the first time, an investor trying to stay current, or a curious observer still getting t

FCA's perimeter from October 2027. The seven regulated activities covered include issuing qualifying stablecoins in the UK, safeguarding qualifying cryptoassets, operating a qualifying cryptoasset trading platform, dealing in qualifying cryptoassets as principal or agent, arranging deals in qualifying cry

On 15 May 2026, the FCA and Bank of England published something the market has been waiting for. Not a pilot. Not a sandbox update. A shared vision — and a roadmap.

Real world asset tokenisation has matured from white paper to working infrastructure. The question for UK founders and operators is now less whether it works, and more what the stack actually looks like end to end.

For those watching institutional asset management move onchain, the partnership announced on 12 May 2026 between Payward and Franklin Templeton carries weight that goes beyond a standard industry announcement. This is a $1.6 trillion global asset manager with a ten-year head start in tokenised finan

A Hong Kong venture capital firm chose London to launch its tokenised Digital Venture Fund. The infrastructure that made it possible is now operational, and accessible to other managers.

White-label tokenisation platforms have moved from niche offering to recognisable category. Several are now active in or accessible from the UK market. Here is how the landscape is taking shape and what founders should be looking for.

A leading global law firm has laid out the structural design problems facing tokenised private fund interests. The UK is now solving the same problems, faster, with a regulator that has just published the rules.

On 30 April 2026, the Financial Conduct Authority finalised its rules for tokenising UK authorised funds. The rules took effect immediately. The UK now has one of the clearest regulatory frameworks for tokenised funds anywhere in the world and the clock is now ticking. Most regulatory milestones arrive with consultation papers and long phase-in periods. PS26/7 did not. On 30 April 2026, the FCA published its policy statement on fund tokenisation and the rules entered force th

The tokenised equity market passed a significant milestone on 12 May 2026 as Ondo Finance announced that its Ondo Global Markets platform had surpassed $1 billion in total value locked, the first tokenised stock and ETF platform in history to reach that threshold. The announcement came alongside a s

The UK government confirmed today that a Financial Services Bill will form part of the 2026 to 2027 parliamentary programme, following the King's Speech delivered this morning. The bill has been anticipated for months. It will fold the Payment Systems Regulator into the Financial Conduct Authority,

For founders and investors watching the UK's tokenisation landscape, Wednesday's State Opening of Parliament deserves close attention. The 2026 King's Speech, scheduled for 13 May, is set to mark the beginning of the most ambitious digital finance legislative programme since the Financial Services a

On 6 May 2026, Chainlink, Apex Group, Bluprynt and Hacken announced the successful completion of the Bermuda Monetary Authority's Embedded Supervision Solution. The pilot demonstrated, for the first time at live scale, that regulatory compliance rules can be built directly into digital asset transac

The world's largest asset manager just made two moves that will define the next chapter of tokenised finance. On 9 May 2026, BlackRock filed to launch a new tokenised Treasury fund and proposed creating onchain share classes for an existing $7 billion money-market fund. Taken together, these filings

The tokenisation conference season has produced a steady stream of platform announcements, partnerships and market positioning updates in 2026. But the week of Consensus Miami has delivered a concentrated burst of news from one of Europe's most active tokenisation infrastructure providers.

There are proofs of concept and there are proofs of function. The distinction matters enormously in institutional finance, where the gap between a demonstration and something that actually works under real-world conditions is often where promising technologies go to stall. On 6 May 2026, Ondo Financ