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Independent UK news and guides on tokenised equity, for founders raising capital, investors and the firms that support them. Published by Tokenisation Group Limited, London. Information only, not financial advice.


Archax adds Chainlink pricing to GOVY as UK collateral plans form
Archax has added Chainlink Data Streams pricing to GOVY, its tokenised US Treasury product, as DIGIT, the Lloyds survey and the UK Finance report show where UK collateral plans stand.
Shawn Jhanji
5 hours ago4 min read


Goldman Sachs Tokenisation Remarks Leave Founders Waiting on the Rails
Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo and Morgan Stanley called tokenisation a growth opportunity on their third quarter earnings calls, while Deutsche Bank Research framed it as a modernisation of existing intermediaries. None described a product for private company shares.
Shawn Jhanji
1 day ago4 min read


What regulated customers will need from tokenisation suppliers
A technology label does not decide regulatory status. A supplier first needs to establish its own position, then prepare for what its regulated customers must be able to show about it.

Palvinder Gill
5 days ago5 min read


BNY settles a tokenised Treasury in minutes for Citadel repo
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.
Shawn Jhanji
5 days ago3 min read


Federated Hermes plans self-issued tokenised fund shares for early 2027
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.
Shawn Jhanji
5 days ago2 min read


Preparing a coherent FCA cryptoasset application
The FCA has published advance information on its cryptoasset application form, and the September revision adds five items. The harder task is making the permissions, business plan, forecasts and custody model describe the same business.

Palvinder Gill
7 days ago4 min read


Understanding Tokenised Cap Table Guide. The Future of Business?
A forward looking, practical guide to tokenised cap tables for founders and investors, covering what they record, the benefits, the downsides and the steps to adopt one.
Shawn Jhanji
Oct 134 min read


What your custody platform needs to fund before authorisation
The prudential rules set a minimum. The firm's own risk assessment may set a higher figure. The funding plan has to keep both in place from authorisation onwards. These are three separate questions, and a founder needs an answer to each.

Palvinder Gill
Oct 125 min read


What UK founders taught me about tokenisation in six months
Six months after a poll of UK founders and investors on equity tokenisation, the plumbing has arrived but the case studies have not. Who is ready, who should wait, and what comes next.
Shawn Jhanji
Oct 95 min read


Building custody for tokenised shares while further rules develop
CASS 6 already sets the baseline for holding tokenised securities. What is still to come is an additional framework specific to them. A platform can design and test its custody model now, without waiting for that framework.

Palvinder Gill
Oct 95 min read


Family offices wait 15 to 16 years for cash and startups can fix that
Family offices are moving earlier into venture but wait 15 to 16 years for cash. Startups are the stage where secondary liquidity can be designed in from the start.
Shawn Jhanji
Oct 84 min read


FCA Director Relleen Puts PISCES at Seven Transactions and Promises a Tokenisation Roadmap in Weeks
FCA director Jon Relleen told a capital markets summit on 5 October that PISCES has four authorised operators and seven transactions, that the DIGIT digital gilt is due early next year, and that a joint tokenisation roadmap is coming in the next few weeks.
Shawn Jhanji
Oct 75 min read


Spiko raises $90m for tokenised cash funds, including in sterling
Spiko, the London and Paris tokenised cash fund issuer, raised a $90 million Series B led by NEA on 6 October 2026, taking its total funding to $120 million.
Shawn Jhanji
Oct 74 min read


Ondo launches tokenised notes tied to private company valuations
Ondo Finance launched Ondo Private Markets on 6 October 2026, tokenised notes that track private company share values at liquidity events but carry no ownership rights.
Shawn Jhanji
Oct 74 min read


ECB sets out three models for central bank money on-chain in Isabel Schnabel's Bank of England presentation
Isabel Schnabel of the ECB presented three ways to put central bank money on a distributed ledger at the Bank of England on 1 October 2026. The slides rank none of them and set no date for a choice.
Shawn Jhanji
Oct 54 min read


Lloyds tokenisation survey finds 71 per cent of senior UK finance leaders expect it to reshape finance
Lloyds polled 100 senior leaders at the UK's largest financial institutions and found technology investment priorities rising fast. The survey measures expectation, not live use.
Shawn Jhanji
Oct 54 min read


What the UK tokenisation feedback means for your business
FS26/1 changes no rules. Its value to a founder or platform is that it shows which parts of a tokenisation plan can go ahead on today's rules, and which still depend on decisions to come.

Palvinder Gill
Oct 55 min read


Chris Woolard's Taskforce Could Reshape Access to Startup Capital
Chris Woolard has spent most of his career deciding how UK financial markets get regulated. This month he published his first report on how they get rebuilt.
Shawn Jhanji
Sep 304 min read


Quiz: How Well Are You Tracking the UK's Tokenised Equity and SEIS Landscape
It has been a fast few weeks for anyone trying to keep up with UK tokenised equity, SEIS reform talk and the early life of PISCES. Today's brief is a lighter one on breaking news, so it felt like the right moment for a pause and a quiz rather than another headline. Ten questions on where things actu
Shawn Jhanji
Sep 305 min read


Black Manta Capital Partners Moves Into Gulf Private Credit With a Tokenised UAE SME Fund, Its Second Infrastructure Deal in a Month
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.
TS Team
Sep 296 min read
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