Briefings archive

Every weekly briefing, latest first. Each edition is a synthesis of the week's most material tokenisation, on-chain payments, and digital-asset regulation moves.

1. Edition

   006

   7 June 2026

   • Issuance & funds
     WisdomTree appoints John Whelan to lead digital-asset strategy
   • Regulatory & licensing
     JP Morgan's Dimon attacks the stablecoin-rewards provision in the US Clarity Act

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   6 narrated · of 14 processed
2. Edition

   005

   31 May 2026

   • Payments & settlement
     ECB to extend TARGET hours for 24/7 Pontes DLT settlement
   • Issuance & funds
     Samsung trio invests $408m in Upbit operator Dunamu, eyeing security tokens and KRW stablecoins
   • Regulatory & licensing
     SFC issues guidance for the uncertificated securities regime

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   29 narrated · of 73 processed
3. Edition

   004

   24 May 2026

   • Cross-border / global
     BIS Project Agorá prototype demonstrates two-layer architecture preserving central bank control while enabling atomic cross-border settlement
   • United States
     Paxos granted temporary DLT-based clearing agency registration by SEC, becoming eighth US CSD and first built on distributed ledger technology
   • Japan
     FSA clarifies legal pathway for foreign trust-based stablecoins, resolving securities classification risk and enabling institutional circulation

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   80 narrated · of 1069 processed
4. Edition

   003

   17 May 2026

   • Cross-border / global
     BlackRock and JP Morgan Asset Management file tokenised MMF prospectuses targeting the new GENIUS Act stablecoin-reserve market
   • Cross-border / global
     AFME lobbies for structural changes to EU DLT securities settlement scheme proposals

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   2 narrated · of 24 processed
5. Edition

   002

   11 May 2026

   • United States
     DTCC confirms July limited rollout and October general launch for tokenised equity entitlements, backed by SEC no-action letter and 50-firm working group
   • Switzerland
     FINMA approves merger of SDX DLT CSD into SIX SIS, consolidating tokenised securities infrastructure under single CSD licence
   • Career and partnership signal
     Bullish acquires Equiniti for $4.2bn, positioning transfer agent infrastructure as the next M&A vector in tokenised equity stack

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   6 narrated · of 25 processed
6. Edition

   001

   28 April 2026

   • Cross-border / global
     Three appointments at the BIS and adjacent bodies set to shape cross-border tokenisation governance for the next three to five years
   • Hong Kong
     SFC unveils new regulatory framework to allow secondary trading of tokenised SFC-authorised investment products
   • Japan
     Nomura, Mizuho, JSCC and Digital Asset announce a tokenised JGB collateral trial on the Canton Network

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   14 narrated · of 85 processed