Kazakhstan is considering expanding the use of asset tokenisation to enable citizens to acquire ownership interests in companies and real estate, while providing businesses with additional opportunities to raise capital, El.kz reports citing the President’s Address of October,28, 2026. Imagine a manufacturing plant that needs funding to purchase new equipment. Its management offers investors the

The Bank of England has launched a public consultation on allowing clearing houses to use tokenized financial assets as collateral, provided they satisfy existing liquidity, transferability and risk management requirements. The proposal marks another step toward integrating blockchain-based financial infrastructure into traditional financial markets. The central bank has published a draft regulatory statement outlining how

UK-based Standard Chartered has introduced its Tokenised Deposits solution in Hong Kong, making the territory the first market within the group’s network to offer it to corporate clients. Announced on 2 November 2026, the service uses the Hong Kong Monetary Authority’s (HKMA) EnsembleTX infrastructure. It is aimed at corporate treasurers, banks, investment platforms, and digital

Image source: istock.com/claudiodivizia The UK has taken a further step towards issuing its first digitally native government bond with the appointment of six banks to manage the pilot Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds, Morgan Stanley, NatWest and RBC Capital Markets have been named as Joint Lead Managers for the Digital Gilt Instrument (DIGIT), following a competitive procurement

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Citi, Swift and the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) published a Sept. 23 framework for digital finance that identifies interoperability across networks as a hurdle for institutional-scale tokenized markets. The paper examines the operational work of moving assets between systems with different standards and settlement assets. Ryan Rugg, Citi Services’ Global Head of Blockchain