The Bank of England (BoE) has outlined its plan to prioritize key innovation areas in 2026, including stablecoins and tokenization, to shape the future of the UKThe Bank of England (BoE) has outlined its plan to prioritize key innovation areas in 2026, including stablecoins and tokenization, to shape the future of the UK

Bank Of England Shares Stablecoin, Tokenization Plan For UK’s Digital Financial Future

The Bank of England (BoE) has outlined its plan to prioritize key innovation areas in 2026, including stablecoins and tokenization, to shape the future of the UK’s digital financial landscape.

BoE To Prioritize Stablecoins In 2026

On Thursday, the Bank of England’s executive director for financial market infrastructure, Sasha Mills, shared the bank’s priorities plan for the year, highlighting the role of regulators in ensuring a safe, responsible, innovative future.

During her speech at the Tokenisation Summit in London, Mills affirmed that financial authorities have “the opportunity to build truly holistic digital financial markets in the UK, bringing real benefits to the real economy.”

To achieve this, the BoE will prioritize systemic stablecoins, tokenized collateral, and the Digital Securities Sandbox (DSS) as three key areas of innovation this year.

The executive director explained that the Bank is focused on advancing its efforts to regulate stablecoins, including its collaboration with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to test the tokens in the DSS, and clarifying policies on the treatment of tokenized collateral under the UK European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR).

Regarding stablecoins, Mills detailed that they “have the potential to modernise retail and wholesale payments, enabling faster, cheaper and more efficient transactions. They could offer a valuable choice for individuals and businesses making payments in the UK and they could offer new functionalities – through programmability – to deliver real benefits for the UK real economy.”

As a result, the Bank is planning to finalize its regime for systemic stablecoins, alongside the FCA, by the end of this year. She noted that these tokens “need to meet the same standards as existing forms of money used in the UK real economy.”

As reported by Bitcoinist, the BoE released a consultation paper on its proposed regulatory framework for sterling-denominated systemic stablecoins, addressing backing rules and holding limits.

Notably, the Bank also moved forward with a controversial proposal to cap stablecoin ownership to £10,000 to £20,000 for individuals and £10 million for businesses, similar to its proposed approach to the digital pound.

UK Seeks Regulatory Clarity For Market Stability

The BoE also seeks to offer clarity for its second priority, tokenization, as the UK is already seeing “practical applications of tokenisation being piloted in collateral markets, offering greater automation and faster settlement, with the potential to lower firm operating costs and increase system-wide liquidity.”

Mills noted that, just like with stablecoins used for payments and traditional collateral, tokenized collateral will be required to meet certain standards to support financial stability.

She asserted that the Bank “aims to avoid mandating or prohibiting specific technologies.”  Nonetheless, she also emphasized that clarity on these topics and how they can operate under the UK’s EMIR rules will be crucial to ensure market confidence.

“To provide greater certainty, we will set out further policy later this year on how tokenised collateral can operate under the existing regulatory framework. Ensuring smoother movement of cross-border collateral requires a consistent international approach, so our policy will be shaped by engagement with industry and our international counterparts,” the executive director affirmed.

Regarding the third area of focus, the Digital Securities Sandbox and stablecoins within it, Mills detailed that the BoE is developing an assessment framework to determine a set of regulated stablecoins that meet high enough standards for use in the sandbox.

“As regulatory regimes for stablecoin issuers in the UK and internationally are still being developed, this assessment framework may not map exactly to future standards for what may be permitted in wholesale markets,” she stated. “However, (…) [it] will both ensure some degree of resilience for market participants, and aid transition to a future permanent regime for the use of stablecoins in wholesale markets.”

“The future is ambitious. But making the changes I outlined today (…) will support financial stability domestically and internationally.” Mills concluded.

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