The promise of tokenised ETFs making any asset accessible to anyone, anywhere, at any time takes centre stage at this year’s ALFI London Conference 2026.
However, turning this democratic vision into a scalable operational reality across Europe and the UK requires navigating significant structural and regulatory hurdles.
A primary issue facing the industry is the fragmentation of regional legal frameworks and the lack of unified rules around tokenised asset custody and settlement finality.
While tokenisation promises to lower entry barriers and reduce distribution costs, market participants are grappling with how to ensure interoperability across multiple public and private blockchains without introducing new operational or security risks.
Existing market infrastructure is not naturally built for the twenty-four-seven liquidity demands of native digital assets, putting pressure on central banks to modernise payment rails.
Several landmark stories from this year provide the immediate background to these debates….
In April 2026, the Financial Conduct Authority published its definitive policy statement PS267 on progressing fund tokenisation, providing a major boost by confirming that UK authorised funds can utilise public blockchains for unitholder registers.
This was swiftly followed in May 2026 by a joint call for input from the Financial Conduct Authority and the Bank of England setting out a shared vision to move wholesale market tokenisation from pilots into full production.
Commercial momentum has mirrored these shifts.
In April 2026, Global X ETFs Europe listed its Stablecoin and Tokenisation UCITS ETF on the London Stock Exchange, demonstrating growing appetites for digital finance infrastructure products.
Meanwhile, global infrastructure giants like the DTCC have advanced timelines for live production trades of tokenised assets. These milestones ensure that the upcoming panel will move past theoretical hype to address concrete execution…
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