Tagged: united kingdom

October 8, 2026 @ 11:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Monzo is accelerating efforts to attract private-equity capital after talks on a full sale to Brazil’s Nubank broke down over price. The eleven-year-old UK digital bank, which has spent the past year navigating boardroom friction while hunting growth funding, has held early discussions in recent… Read More

October 7, 2026 @ 8:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The United Kingdom has moved its first digitally native government bond closer to market by naming the banks that will lead the pilot sale. On 6 October 2026, HM Treasury appointed Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds, Morgan Stanley, NatWest and RBC Capital Markets as joint lead managers… Read More

October 5, 2026 @ 5:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Veremark, a background-checking platform that has generated success, will see its secondary offering listed on Crowdcube close today. As it stands currently, 51 investors have committed £504,461 (an average of almost £10,000) to purchase insider shares. As was previously reported, Veremark generated annual revenue of £6.7… Read More

October 4, 2026 @ 12:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A couple in the West Midlands has described a violent home invasion in which masked intruders beat the husband and threatened to kill his pregnant wife and their unborn child unless cryptocurrency was handed over. The attack took place on the afternoon of 13 December… Read More

October 3, 2026 @ 10:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Barclays (NYSE: BCS) is widening its partnership with Anthropic, bringing the Claude family of models deeper into day-to-day work across the British universal bank. The October 1, 2026 announcement frames the move as an effort to place secure, enterprise-grade systems throughout global operations, with particular… Read More

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 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 @ 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 @ 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 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 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 @ 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

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