Eunice is part of the London FinTech delegation to Singapore

Deputy Mayor for Business and Growth Howard Dawber OBE.

We joined a brilliant group of London scale-ups flying the flag for UK fintech. The delegation pulled together founders, regulators and institutions, and put them in the same room across two of the world's leading financial centres. That combination is rarer than it should be, and it is exactly the kind of room worth travelling for.

What stood out was how much London and Singapore want the same thing. Both are betting that the next decade of financial services will be defined by genuine innovation, and both are equally clear that innovation cannot come at the expense of trust. Neither city wants to win by lowering the bar. They want to win by proving that speed and rigour are not opposites.

London and Singapore want the same thing: real innovation, without sacrificing trust.

Why this conversation matters now

Two parts of the market are moving into the core of institutional portfolios faster than the surrounding controls were built to handle. In digital assets, tokenised funds, stablecoins and real-world assets are being onboarded across multiple jurisdictions at once, each with its own classification rules, disclosure expectations and supervisory tone. In private markets, the growth of secondary liquidity has changed the clock: positions now change hands well before a fund's life is over, and an allocator who wants to act on a secondary has to underwrite the asset before the window closes. Speed is no longer a nice-to-have. It is a requirement of the opportunity itself.

The common thread is pressure. In both worlds, the work of deciding whether something is safe to list, hold, buy or distribute has not got any smaller. It has got harder, and it has to happen faster. The institutions that will lead are not the ones willing to cut corners. They are the ones that can underwrite thoroughly at the speed the market now demands, and show their work when a regulator or an investment committee asks. Trust, in other words, is becoming an operational capability rather than a value statement.

Where Eunice fits

This is the problem we built Eunice to solve, and we treat digital assets and private markets as two halves of the same job. We are building an AI analyst that brings rigour and speed to due diligence and monitoring across both. Every output is sourced, verified across multiple agents, and reviewed by a human before it counts. The aim is not to replace judgement but to give compliance and investment teams a faster, more consistent foundation for it, with an audit trail that holds up.

For digital assets, that means fast, compliant token onboarding: classification, risk rating and human review for a new asset, then the same standard applied to every jurisdiction and product line, with monitoring and annual reviews handled on cadence. For private markets, it means knowing your portfolio on cadence and on demand, with cross-manager data harmonised onto one schema so it is comparable, queryable and audit-ready, tailored to your firm's house standards. Different surfaces, one intelligence layer, and in both cases the same principle: speed without accountability is not an option.

Standards get written in rooms like these

The reason a trip like this is worth the flight is simple. The standards for the next era of finance are not handed down in a single document. They emerge from regulators, founders and institutions talking to each other directly, comparing what works, and agreeing on what good looks like before it hardens into rule. Being in those conversations early is how you help shape the bar rather than scramble to meet it later.

Thank you to London & Partners team for convening such a brilliant cohort, and to our fellow founders for the energy and ideas throughout the trip.

The future of financial services is being built across both cities, and across both digital assets and private markets. We are glad to be part of it.