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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.
UK EQUITY TOKENISATION NEWS
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
Startup News
PISCES for employees: what it means for EMI options, CSOPs and selling startup shares
How employees and option holders in UK private companies can use PISCES to sell shares, what changes for EMI and CSOP options, the tax points to check and the questions to ask your employer.
Shawn Jhanji
4 days ago4 min read
TERN opens UK venture fund for refugee founders with £300,000 to start
TERN has opened applications for a UK fund investing £50,000 to £100,000 in refugee-founded businesses. The starting pot is £300,000 against a planned £10 million.
Shawn Jhanji
5 days ago2 min read
Salience Labs $125m Series B includes £10m from British Business Bank
Oxford photonics company Salience Labs has raised a $125m Series B that includes £10m from the British Business Bank, announced on 14 October 2026, set against the Bank's other recent announcements.
Shawn Jhanji
5 days ago2 min read
Law & regulation
PISCES explained: the complete guide for UK private companies and their shareholders
What PISCES is, who can use it, how trading events work, what companies must disclose and what the first year of trading tells founders, employees and investors.
Shawn Jhanji
4 days ago6 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
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
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RWA & TOKENISATION
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
Mastercard BVNK Global Money Platform opens stablecoin payments
Seventy three days after buying London's BVNK, Mastercard has packaged its stablecoin rails as a toolkit any business can rent. UK founders gain a cheaper way in and a tougher market to sell into.
Shawn Jhanji
4 days ago3 min read
INVESTING & FINANCE
British Business Bank regional funds back 877 firms, review finds
An early assessment by SQW found six British Business Bank regional funds made 951 investments and drew £233 million of private money by September 2025. The evidence shows who gets first institutional money, and little yet on what follows.
Shawn Jhanji
6 days ago3 min read
SEIS and EIS head into the 28 October Budget with record SEIS use
SEIS raised a record 276 million pounds in 2024-25 while EIS plateaued and VCT relief fell to 20 per cent. This is what is confirmed about the 28 October Budget, and what UK founders can ask before it.
Shawn Jhanji
Oct 124 min read
Are family offices still patient capital when exits stall?
A 2026 RBC and Campden Wealth survey found that 47 per cent of attempted fund exits stalled. This Open Question asks what that means for family offices as patient capital, and for UK founders raising from them.
Shawn Jhanji
Oct 123 min read
THE LEGAL VIEW
Tokenised Shares and EIS: How Much of the Liquidity Story Can You Tell at Issue?
A tax insight from gunnercooke on how tokenising shares interacts with EIS and SEIS relief, and how much of the liquidity story you can safely tell at the point of issue. A tax perspective, not legal advice.
Sep 1625 min read
Borderless Assets, Not Borderless Investors: Who Can Invest in Tokenised Equity?
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
Jul 276 min read
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EDITOR PICKS
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.
Securitize's CEO Says Public Companies Have Lost Track of Their Own Shareholders. His Fix Is an Onchain Register
Carlos Domingo, co-founder and chief executive of Securitize, has a blunt pitch for public companies: you probably do not know who owns your own stock, and blockchain can fix that. He is using his own company's shares to make the case.
Citi Confirms Bitcoin Custody Launch Under New Custody+ Platform
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.
RECOMMENDED
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.
Ondo Launches Intelligent Tokenised Portfolios Modelled on BlackRock Investment Strategies
Ondo Finance has launched Ondo Intelligent Portfolios, onchain model portfolios built on BlackRock strategies, marking a shift from tokenised cash equivalents toward multi-asset onchain products.
The people closest to an industry are often the last to see how much it can change
The people closest to an industry are often the last to see how much it can change. That’s the hard truth behind many conversations about tokenisation right now.
Plenty of banks, funds, exchanges, property firms and large companies are already testing blockchain-based systems. Some have pilot projects. Some have small teams working on “digital assets”. Some are setting up two-track models, where old systems keep running while tokenised systems sit beside them.
Yet inside t
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