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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
Seed investors rarely see the headline price
An £8m offer does not mean £96,000 for a 1.2 per cent SEIS angel. A worked example shows how preferences, deal costs and escrow shrink the cash, and why UK secondary markets matter.
Shawn Jhanji
6 days ago6 min read
Startup News
Future London Growth Fund debt versus equity for London scaleups
FSE Group's Future London Growth Fund will lend more than £70 million in loans of £1 million to £3 million, but no rates or terms have been published. A worked comparison shows the exit value at which a loan costs less than selling equity.
Shawn Jhanji
2 days ago3 min read
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
Oct 164 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
Oct 152 min read
Law & regulation
Ripple National Trust Bank wins final OCC approval
The US federal regulator has cleared the bank that will manage the reserves behind the RLUSD stablecoin, while the token's issuer stays in New York.
Shawn Jhanji
2 days ago3 min read
OCC final GENIUS Act rule sets stablecoin regime from 18 January 2027
The US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency finalised its GENIUS Act stablecoin rule on 21 October 2026, and its announcement says little about foreign issuers, the group a UK sterling stablecoin firm would belong to.
Shawn Jhanji
6 days ago3 min read
Lloyds and Barclays lead 10,092 UK crypto transfer complaints
Stand With Crypto UK counted 10,092 complaints about blocked or capped bank transfers to crypto platforms in 90 days, and more than a quarter concern banks that publish no policy at all.
Shawn Jhanji
7 days ago3 min read
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RWA & TOKENISATION
Janus Henderson JQQQ tokenised fund puts the Nasdaq-100 on Stellar
Janus Henderson and Centrifuge launched JQQQ on 27 October 2026, but the fund is a British Virgin Islands structure for non-US investors and no UK offer is stated.
Shawn Jhanji
11 hours ago4 min read
Securitize adds Stellar as a supported blockchain
Securitize has added Stellar to the blockchains it supports, but no first asset, launch date or UK availability has been named for the integration.
Shawn Jhanji
11 hours ago3 min read
Aviva Investors Sterling Liquidity Fund gets a tokenised class
Aviva Investors has launched a tokenised share class of its £22 billion sterling money market fund on the XRP Ledger. The £50 million invested so far is about one pound in every 440 in the fund.
Shawn Jhanji
1 day ago3 min read
INVESTING & FINANCE
Budget 2026 UK startups get Founders Relief and £5bn for the BBB
Chancellor John Healey's 28 October 2026 Budget gives founders a 10 per cent Founders Relief and the British Business Bank £5 billion, but leaves VCT relief for investors at 20 per cent.
Shawn Jhanji
7 hours ago4 min read
Family offices investing in UK: faster settlement, same missing buyer
UK settlement is moving in dated steps, but for family offices investing in UK private companies the limit on earlier access to capital is still a buyer, not the rail. An editor's view.
Shawn Jhanji
2 days ago5 min read
Seed investors rarely see the headline price
An £8m offer does not mean £96,000 for a 1.2 per cent SEIS angel. A worked example shows how preferences, deal costs and escrow shrink the cash, and why UK secondary markets matter.
Shawn Jhanji
6 days ago6 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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