Tagged: uk

October 2, 2026 @ 8:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Zilch, the London-founded consumer credit fintech, has taken a concrete step toward going public by inviting investment banks to compete for advisory roles on a possible stock market debut as early as 2027. The move, reported in late September 2026, would represent a notable boost… Read More

October 2, 2026 @ 12:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa (NYSE: V) and Lloyds Banking Group have finished a week-long live experiment in using stablecoins for institutional settlement, showing that funds can move across borders far more quickly than on conventional rails—even when banks are closed. The trial, announced on 30 September 2026, is… Read More

October 1, 2026 @ 10:12 am By JD Alois  |  

This week the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) announced a new “Crypto Gateway“ for firms to register to provide crypto services in the country. A grace period applies: firms must apply by February 28, 2027, to provide services, with the new regime coming into force… Read More

October 1, 2026 @ 9:27 am By JD Alois  |  

The Payments Association in the UK advocates for the payments and transfer sectors, including crypto participants. Today, the Payments Association says it has acquired its European counterpart, the Payments Association – EU (TPA-EU). Any monetary considerations were not revealed. Together, the two entities will now… Read More

October 1, 2026 @ 3:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Investors who lost money in a long-running fake cryptocurrency scheme have taken a meaningful step toward partial reimbursement after a London court issued confiscation orders against the two men already serving prison sentences for the crime. Southwark Crown Court directed Raymondip Bedi to pay £603,404.28… Read More

October 1, 2026 @ 2:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK’s competition regulator has raised formal concerns that The Brink’s Company’s planned takeover of NCR Atleos could reduce rivalry in parts of the UK cash-machine market. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said the $6.6 billion cash-and-stock transaction may be expected to result in a… Read More

September 30, 2026 @ 8:41 am By JD Alois  |  

The United Kingdom has launched regulated crypto activities. Previously, crypto firms operated under a mix of limited registrations and opaque rules as policymakers worked to update the regulatory regime. These firms now fall under the remit of the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), which issued… Read More

September 30, 2026 @ 2:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has taken on an expanded role within institutional blockchain infrastructure after being named a Super Validator on the Canton Network. The appointment, disclosed on 28 September 2026, builds on work already under way through LSEG’s Digital Settlement House, or DiSH,… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 4:29 pm By JD Alois  |  

BAGEY, Baillie Gifford’s Enhanced Yield Fund, a regulated investment fund, is said to be the UK’s first authorized tokenized fund. According to a note from Anchorage Digital, it will provide digital asset custody for the offering, along with other services. Baillie Gifford is a UK-based… Read More

September 28, 2026 @ 2:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Brazil’s digital banking platform Nubank (NYSE: NU) is said to currently be holding early conversations about a possible purchase of UK’s Monzo, a move that would give the Latin American digital lender a ready-made platform in the United Kingdom and a foothold for wider European… Read More

September 25, 2026 @ 9:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A group of the UK’s largest banking institutions has moved tokenised bank money out of laboratory tests and into actual customer activity, completing the first live retail transactions using digital representations of ordinary sterling deposits. The work sits inside the Great British Tokenized Deposit programme,… Read More

September 24, 2026 @ 6:08 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdcube, a leading online investment platform in the UK and Europe, says secondaries have quickly become a significant part of its business. According to a blog post, Crowdcube reports that £543 million in PISCES secondaries are in the pipeline. In total, including the PISCES listings,… Read More

September 23, 2026 @ 9:26 am By JD Alois  |  

NatWest has invested in its first outside venture capital fund. According to a company statement, NatWest Venture Banking has committed an undisclosed amount across Phoenix Court’s family of funds. Phoenix Court is a VC firm that supports private firms from pre-seed through to scale-up. The… Read More

September 22, 2026 @ 9:26 am By JD Alois  |  

ClearToken has been accepted into the Bank of England Digital Securities Sandbox (DSS) to run a Digital Securities Depository (DSD). ClearToken CSD will be able to offer a tokenized version of existing securities under the program. This includes: Tokenized securities including debt and equity A… Read More

September 22, 2026 @ 1:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK’s financial regulator has stepped up pressure on unregistered digital-asset dealing in the capital, targeting premises suspected of running peer-to-peer cryptocurrency businesses without the approvals required under anti-money-laundering rules. On 10 September 2026, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) joined HM Revenue & Customs and the… Read More

September 21, 2026 @ 8:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK mortgage overpayment app Sprive has completed a £5.5 million funding round as it seeks to help more homeowners cut interest costs and finish their loans sooner. The London company described itself as the United Kingdom’s independent mortgage overpayment app. The round was led by… Read More

September 19, 2026 @ 7:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Manchester payments firm Ryft has closed a £20 million Series B round to take its multi-party payment infrastructure beyond Britain and into continental Europe and the United States. The raise was led by Gresham House Ventures, with follow-on support from existing backers Pembroke VCT and… Read More

September 18, 2026 @ 3:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Saffron Building Society has chosen FintechOS to modernise how it originates mortgages, starting with residential lending and building toward a full end-to-end process. The Essex mutual, founded in 1849 and now serving more than 118,000 members with assets above £1.5 billion, wants the new system… Read More

September 18, 2026 @ 11:16 am By JD Alois  |  

A seismic shift for global finance as the US regulator brings the $75 trillion plus US equity market into the digital age As the tokenization market is predicted to quickly top trillions of dollars in securities within a few years, global participants in the tokenization… Read More

September 17, 2026 @ 7:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK’s financial regulator has given digital-asset businesses a clearer map of what will count as a regulated activity under the country’s incoming crypto framework. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published perimeter guidance explaining which firms will need full authorisation once the new regime takes… Read More