Content

At the turn of the century a disruptive alternative trading platform called Chi-X competed successfully with the established stock exchanges for order flow by cutting transaction costs dramatically. Blockchain technology has promised a similar revolution for more than a decade but failed conspicuously to deliver. The founders of BPX Digital Securities Marketplace, the digital securities marketplace licensed by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in June 2025, believe they

A group of digital asset exchanges and one CSD have warned European institutions their blockchain reforms are too slow to compete with the US With reforms not scheduled for implementation until 2030, the group suggests a mini package of liberalising measures within the DLT Pilot Regime sandbox now The proposed “quick fix” reforms will allow DLT Pilot Regime licence holders to tokenise any asset and grow faster for longer before being fully regulated A group of digital asset e

Following successful tests as part of the ECB trials, Clearstream has launched a tokenisation platform for clients to issue and settle tokenised securities The earliest users of the tokenisation platform are expected to be issuers of commercial paper and Medium-Term Notes (MTNs) in the Euromarkets D7 DLT, which marks an expansion of the four-and-a-half-year-old D7 issuance platform, is a Cloud-based service supported by Google Cloud Clearstream has added a tokenised securiti