Shanny Basar

Senior writer

A Senior Writer at Markets Media who became a financial journalist in 2000 after working in banking for over a decade. As a journalist, Shanny has previously worked in New York close to a decade, which included covering the financial crisis in 2008, before venturing home to the UK. Shanny studied Mechanical Engineering as an undergraduate. Her passion for the arts led her to complete an Arts & Humanities degree, currently, Shanny is aiming for a Masters in Art History. When Shanny is not too busy studying, she writes plays with the goal of seeing one performed on stage. With a passion for travel, Shanny has been known to take a year off to travel round the world.

Latest From Shanny Basar

Bullish Assembles Puzzle of Tokenization Infrastructure

Bullish, an institutional global digital asset platform that provides market infrastructure and information services, went public on the New York Stock Exchange in August 2025. One year later tokenized Bullish shares started trading on Bullish Exc...

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Coinbase Builds Unified Global Derivatives Platform

In August this year Coinbase, which operates the U.S.-listed cryptocurrency exchange, said it was rolling out a new matching engine for derivatives. This comes one year after Coinbase completed its acquisition of Deribit, the crypto options exchan...

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Multi-Asset Class Trading Expands

MEMX Adds Scale in Options with BOX

MEMX, an equities and options exchange operator and market technology provider, is combining with BOX Options, a U.S. equity options market with both electronic and floor-based trading, to service clients’ full liquidity needs. On 30 July 2026 ME...

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MTS Expands in European-Denominated Corporates

Clear Street Expands in Prediction, Private Markets

Clear Street, a cloud-native financial infrastructure technology firm, has become the first futures commission merchant (FCM) to provide access to prediction market Kalshi, and has launched private markets research and access to private companies ...

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Onchain Repo Using Sovereign Digital Bond is ‘Pivotal’

The Republic of the Marshall Islands' natively issued the first digital sovereign bond and its use in an onchain repo transaction is seen as pivotal for future capital markets moving onchain. Market maker Virtu Financial, electronic trading platf...

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Buy Side Forced to Review Collateral Arrangements

Asset Managers Unlock Tokenized Collateral

Fund managers Vanguard and Wellington Management completed their first tokenized collateral trades on Nasdaq Calypso and Canton Network. Yuval Rooz, co-founder & chief executive at Digital Asset, the blockchain technology provider, said on X:...

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AI Can Boost Assets by Supporting Distribution

A fund manager can achieve incremental annual inflows of 0.5% to 1% of assets under management by deploying artificial intelligence to support distribution. BCG said in a report that asset managers have faced rising costs outpacing revenue for mo...

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Fixed Income Platform Blends Analytics, Execution

Cboe Clear Europe Expands SFT Clearing into Fixed Income

In 2025 Cboe Clear Europe started clearing European securities financing transactions (SFTs) involving European cash equities and exchange-traded funds across 19 European central securities depositories. On 24 August 2026 the service is expanding ...

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