This primer explains what tokenisation could mean for UK issuers, company secretaries, boards, and legal teams. It explores the difference between genuine issuer-sponsored tokenisation and models that may only provide economic exposure and sets out why the role of the registrar remains central to any credible, rights-preserving structure.
It also places tokenisation in the context of UK market developments, including the Digitisation Taskforce, FCA work on fund tokenisation and the FCA / Bank of England’s shared vision for tokenisation in UK wholesale markets.
What you’ll learn
- How tokenisation fits into the UK’s wider shareholding digitisation agenda
- The difference between digitised registers and tokenised ownership
- Why issuer-sponsored tokenisation matters for preserving shareholder rights
- How tokenised equity models differ across direct, custodial, and synthetic structures
- What tokenisation could mean for corporate actions, voting, dividends, and issuer visibility
- The key questions UK boards, company secretaries, legal teams, and registrars should consider.
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