As the equities markets are generally moving towards tokenisation, a common question is how the marketing of tokenised equity differs from traditional equity. In this respect, it is a mistake to focus on the “tokenised” element of tokenised equity. In the UK, tokenisation does not, from a purely legal analysis, expand the target market to whom shares can be sold. Where a token represents rights to, or interests in, an underlying share, it is very likely going to be treated as

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 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

An RWA, or real world asset, is a cryptoasset that represents something that exists off the blockchain: a share, a bond, a building, even a stock of uranium. The idea has been around for a decade, but in recent months it has moved to the centre of the conversation. That is partly new use cases with real value, such as tokenised uranium, which allows investment without ever taking delivery. It is partly better infrastructure, such as stablecoins making settlement more reliab

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 informal deadline for the US Senate Banking Committee to schedule a markup of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act — the CLARITY Act — came and went on Friday 25 April without any action from Committee Chairman Tim Scott. The bill, which passed the House 294 to 134 last July, now faces an extended wait before it can move toward a Senate floor vote.

What Tokenisation Means for Startups Tokenisation refers to the process of converting ownership rights in an asset into a digital token on a blockchain. This technology allows companies to represent shares, equity, or other financial instruments as tokens that can be traded more easily and transparently. For startups, tokenisation offers several advantages: Access to a broader investor base: Tokens can be sold to investors worldwide without traditional intermedia

The UK Jurisdiction Taskforce has published its Report on Control of Digital Assets, and while it may not attract mainstream attention, it represents a meaningful step forward in how digital assets are understood within English law.

the US Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued joint guidance that the digital assets industry has been waiting over a decade for. For the first time, the SEC formally defined different types of crypto assets and how the regulator will approach them — ending years of enforcement-by-litigation and replacing it with a clear taxonomy.

At the Tokenisation Summit back in January 2026, Sasha Mills of the Bank of England outlined a clear priority for the coming year: building the foundations for the next generation of digital financial infrastructure. Her speech focused on three areas that will shape the UK’s approach to digital markets: regulated stablecoins tokenised collateral expansion of the Digital Securities Sandbox

At the Tokenisation Summit back in January 2026, Sasha Mills of the Bank of England outlined a clear priority for the coming year: building the foundations for the next generation of digital financial infrastructure. Her speech focused on three areas that will shape the UK’s approach to digital markets: regulated stablecoins tokenised collateral expansion of the Digital Securities Sandbox

Tokenisation is increasingly being discussed as a new way for startups to raise capital. By representing ownership rights digitally on blockchain infrastructure, investments could potentially become easier to manage, faster to settle and more accessible to a wider pool of investors. In our experience, for many founders however, the first questions are not technical. They are practical.