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

On 15 May 2026, the Prudential Regulation Authority sent a letter to the chief executives of all UK-regulated banks and designated investment firms setting out how it expects them to treat tokenised assets, stablecoins and other cryptoasset exposures from a prudential perspective. Published jointly

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

For UK founders and investors watching the tokenisation of equity markets, one of the clearest signals yet that this space is being given a real regulatory foundation arrived from Washington on 18 May 2026. Bloomberg Law reported that the US Securities and Exchange Commission, under Chair Paul Atkin

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.

On 14 May 2026, the United States Senate Banking Committee passed the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act in a 15-9 vote. Two Democrats joined Republicans to advance the bill, marking the first bipartisan approval of comprehensive US digital asset regulation at committee level. The vote moves the legis

Private equity and venture capital have been theoretical use cases for tokenisation for several years. In 2026 they are starting to become real ones, but rarely in the ways the early narratives predicted.

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

Litigation finance has long been one of the more opaque corners of alternative assets. Returns are uncorrelated, the underlying exposure is contractual rather than market-driven, and access has historically been restricted to a small number of specialist funds and institutional allocators. A new iss

Today the US Senate Banking Committee sits down to vote on the Digital Asset Market CLARITY Act, a 309-page piece of legislation that would do something Washington has been promising for years: draw a clear line between which digital assets are securities and which are commodities, and assign regula

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

Jamie Marshall at CMS makes the case that tokenised funds are a historic opportunity for Scotland and the UK. The argument deserves a wider hearing, and the timing is tighter than most realise.

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

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

When the FCA launched the PISCES sandbox framework in June 2025, most commentary treated it as an interesting experiment. Less than a year later, the UK has four approved private company trading platforms, the first trades have been completed, and one operator has launched without charging fees or r

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