Franklin Templeton has extended its flagship tokenised money market fund into Asia, partnering with Hong Kong based HashKey Exchange to give digital asset investors across the region access to a blockchain based US government liquidity product through a licensed exchange for the first time.

Thirty nine US state banking associations announced on 25 August 2026 the formation of BankChain Alliance, an industry consortium set to build a bank owned blockchain network intended to go live in 2027, supporting tokenised deposits, bank issued stablecoins, smart payment tools and automated settle

For UK founders and investors watching whether tokenisation infrastructure gets built from scratch or bolted onto rails the world already trusts, this week's answer came from two of the biggest names in global banking. Standard Chartered and HSBC have completed the first live cross border transactio

India will issue its first tokenised corporate bond next month, according to Reuters sources, as the country tests blockchain based instant settlement through a small pilot deal that places it alongside Europe and Hong Kong among jurisdictions actively experimenting with tokenised debt issuance.

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.

For UK founders and investors watching which model wins the tokenisation infrastructure race, this week's confirmation from one of the world's largest custodian banks is a bigger signal than another platform launch.

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

The US Securities and Exchange Commission cancelled its 14 August open meeting, where it had been expected to propose Regulation Crypto Assets, its first formal crypto specific rulemaking, and to unveil a long anticipated innovation exemption for tokenised securities. The regulator cited an unforese

For UK founders and investors still treating tokenised equity as a slow burn regulatory story, the retail adoption numbers out this week are a reminder that the market is not waiting for permission. The total number of holders of tokenised stocks climbed to 1.31 million, more than double the figure

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

For UK founders watching tokenisation move from pilot to plumbing, the clearest signal this week came not from a new platform launch but from the world's largest securities depository proving the rails work, followed within days by the IMF warning that proving they work is not the same as proving th

For UK founders and investors wondering whether tokenisation infrastructure will be built by crypto native platforms or by regulated City institutions, this week's announcement from AIM listed Marechale Capital offered a clear answer.

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

This is the question this publication keeps circling back to, because it is the one genuinely open piece left in an otherwise settled picture. If a UK seed investor holds SEIS qualifying shares represented as a token, what specific custody and nominee structure lets that token satisfy HMRC's conditi

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

July 2026 in Review. Britain opened July accused of being behind on tokenisation. It closed the month with its biggest institutional coalition yet, a date for its first digital bond, and the world's largest custody bank moving fund ownership onto a blockchain. UK The month's UK story is really one long rebuttal, delivered in real time, to a single sentence. On 6 July, UK Finance published a report written by Oliver Wyman with a blunt headline finding: Britain is behind other

Two UK based tokenisation firms have just picked up Ripple as a shareholder rather than simply a partner, a sign of how much of the plumbing behind tokenised collateral markets is being built by British regulated firms rather than imported from elsewhere.

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

For UK founders and investors watching the tokenisation sector professionalise, the biggest news this week did not come from a crypto native platform. It came from BNY, the world's largest custody bank, which has just put the plumbing of fund ownership itself onto a blockchain.

Securitize, the tokenisation platform best known in the UK for its custody and infrastructure work with BlackRock's tokenised fund, took a regulatory step past its origins as an issuance and trading platform this week. Its subsidiary, Securitize Capital LLC, became a fully registered investment advi