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Europe has a single rulebook for its capital markets. It has not yet built a single market. The Savings and Investments Union will be judged at the long tail. SMEs and mid-caps, where crowdfunding platforms are quietly turning loans into transferable bonds, and where the next move depends on what the European Commission does with its DLT Pilot Regime review. Making the regime permanent and removing the caps is what gives the l

Managing your cap table shouldn't slow you down. Here's how Axiology helps startups handle shareholder registry management without inefficient processes and queues at the notary. If you're a startup founder, you already know the feeling: you're closing a round, onboarding a new investor, or restructuring equity and suddenly, you're buried in notary appointments, documentation, and administrative back-and-forth that has nothing to do with building your company. Shareholder reg

This week, the European Central Bank is hosting a public focus session on wholesale central bank money (wCBDC) settlement for DLT-based transactions. The session provides a consolidated update on its Pontes (short-term track) and Appia (long-term track) initiatives. Pontes connects regulated market DLT platforms with TARGET Services, allowing settlement either via cash tokens issued on the Eurosystem DLT or directly in T2, with finality anchored in central bank money. A pilot

For many shareholders, directors and legal advisers, notarising equity deals has long been seen as a standard step. However, in certain EU jurisdictions, legislation provides an alternative and more efficient way to register share transfers without involving a notary. This modern approach not only reduces time and administrative costs but also upgrades the entire share management process. It becomes available when a company outsources its share register management to a licens