Tagged: uk

September 16, 2026 @ 9:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A Bank of England official has suggested that the rapid rise of dollar-linked digital tokens could support broader use of the US currency and add to demand for American government debt, while also introducing new vulnerabilities if large numbers of holders seek to cash out… Read More

September 16, 2026 @ 8:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

London-based Velocity has added $10 million to its Series A, bringing the round to $48 million after a group of traditional finance and crypto investors joined the raise. Visa Ventures, Circle Ventures and Ripple participated alongside Haun Ventures, Translink Capital and Mirana Ventures, according to… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 9:49 am By JD Alois  |  

Last week, UK Finance and Oliver Wyman, a management consulting firm, partnered on a report on the developing digital asset ecosystem. The report said the UK is well positioned for the tokenization of securities, but it must “act with urgency” to remain globally competitive. The… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 12:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

UK’s financial regulator is examining whether some digital representations of physical gold should sit outside existing fund rules, as part of a wider push to modernise wholesale markets and keep London at the centre of global bullion trading. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is working… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 9:42 am By JD Alois  |  

Tokenovate shares that it has completed an intra-day repurchase agreement (Repo) on the Canton Network using the FINOS Common Domain Model (CDM), utilzing USDC. Tokenovate is a UK-based Fintech enabling post-trade lifecycle automation and digital settlement solutions. Canton is  a privacy-enabled blockchain network built for… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 8:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Satsuma Technology PLC (LSE:SATS),  a United Kingdom company listed on the London Stock Exchange, has completed the sale of its entire Bitcoin treasury and secured court clearance to send the resulting cash back to investors. The firm disposed of 669.4867 Bitcoin in late July and will… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 4:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

HelmGuard, a London-based startup building an agentic platform for governance, risk, and compliance, has closed a $7.3 million seed round as it looks to replace slow, document-heavy assurance work with AI systems that inspect risk at the source. The financing was co-led by Infinity Ventures… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 9:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has secured an unprecedented influx of cash from two cryptocurrency billionaires, who together handed the party £72 million in the space of a day. The gifts, each worth £36 million, rank as the largest individual donations ever recorded to a British… Read More

September 11, 2026 @ 1:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

UK payments professionals largely endorse the government’s plan to modernise the country’s retail payment rails, yet few feel fully assured that the program will be delivered as intended. That is the central message of From Vision to Delivery, a survey of 350 industry figures published… Read More

September 10, 2026 @ 11:20 am By JD Alois  |  

The UK has long been known as Europe’s leading fintech hub and has punched above its weight globally. A combination of strong university-level education, an entrepreneurial culture, and a history of supporting innovation has helped it lead continental Europe in tech and entrepreneurship. Yet no… Read More

September 10, 2026 @ 10:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

London-based card acquirer MADFIN Tech has teamed up with Tribe Payments to underpin its UK merchant-acquiring rollout, using Tribe’s processing stack and 3D Secure tools as it builds out operations. The collaboration, reported on 9 September 2026, is designed to give the young firm a… Read More

September 10, 2026 @ 9:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Archax Markets LLC, the United States subsidiary of UK-based digital asset firm Archax Group Ltd, has secured FINRA approval of its New Member Application. That decision completes the unit’s registration as a US broker-dealer with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and gives the group… Read More

September 9, 2026 @ 3:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

US and UK based investigators have opened a new chapter in the fight against industrial-scale cryptocurrency fraud. On September 3, 2026, officials from both countries signed a first-of-its-kind memorandum of understanding that commits them to pursue the overseas compounds behind investment and romance scams that… Read More

September 8, 2026 @ 12:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The United Kingdom’s financial industry is entering a more demanding stage of market digitalization. Proof-of-concept work has already shown that distributed ledger technology can represent bonds, funds and other assets as tokens. The harder question now is whether Britain will help set the operating standards… Read More

September 5, 2026 @ 2:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BCP Technologies has completed its first live purchase of a tokenised US Treasury bill using its sterling stablecoin, marking a notable moment for on-chain settlement in the UK market. The London-based issuer said it bought Archax’s $GOVY tokenised T-bill and settled the trade in tGBP,… Read More

September 4, 2026 @ 9:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Hargreaves Lansdown, one of the UK’s largest retail investment platform, has begun listing Bitcoin and Ethereum exchange-traded notes for eligible clients, ending a long period in which it stood apart from most rivals on crypto access. From 3 September 2026, the firm made nine products… Read More

September 3, 2026 @ 8:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Belgium’s National Bank has publicly identified Wise Europe SA, part of Wise Group PLC (NASDAQ: WSE), as the first firm named under a strengthened policy for disclosing anti-money laundering enforcement actions. The publications, dated 25 August 2026, mark the start of a more transparent approach… Read More

September 3, 2026 @ 3:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Dutch payments group Mollie has formally closed its takeover of UK bank-payments specialist GoCardless, bringing to an end a deal first agreed in December 2025. The combination creates a single European financial-services platform serving more than 350,000 businesses in over 30 markets, pairing Mollie’s card-acquiring… Read More

September 1, 2026 @ 11:08 am By JD Alois  |  

The London Stock Exchange (LSE) and Payward (Kraken’s parent company) announced a partnership today to begin tokenizing shares, with more digital asset innovation in the pipeline. Indicating its interest in pursuing tokenization or digital securities, the LSE stated: “The London Stock Exchange is assessing a… Read More

September 1, 2026 @ 6:40 am By JD Alois  |  

Payward, Kraken’s parent company, is partnering with the London Stock Exchange (LSE) to enable tokenized stocks. In a post on X, Payward said it would modernize UK equity markets by working with the LSE. “[The] LSE plans to list the full xStocks suite on LSE 24,… Read More