Shanny Basar

In December last year Cboe Global Markets changed the name of its Data and Access Solutions business to Cboe Data Vantage which it said better represents the breadth of its offerings across data and access, analytics and execution, and indices and...

On 17 July 2025 the U.S. House of Representatives passed the CLARITY Act, GENIUS Act, and Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act. The GENIUS Act will allow federal regulations to be put in place for stablecoins, while the CLARITY Act for digital asset...

SIX Group, the Swiss and Spanish financial market infrastructure, completed its acquisition of Aquis, the UK-based stock exchange, at the beginning of July 2025. Harmonizing trading platforms is a strategic priority as the combined group aims to o...

Wedbush Securities has become the latest financial services firm to launch 24-hour trading for U.S. equities as the first phase of 24X National Exchange is due to launch in September this year. 24X National Exchange said it will be the first nati...

iShares, BlackRock’s exchange-traded fund franchise, is approaching $5 trillion in assets under management after record inflows in the first half of this year. On 17 July 2025 Blackrock reported $152bn of year-to-date total net inflows led by a r...

Collateral management is advancing onchain as Canton Network, the blockchain network for institutional digital assets, is connecting to Nasdaq Calypso and digital assets were also used as collateral for the first time in the UK - in a foreign exch...

Crossover Markets is bringing CROSSx, the only execution-only crypto electronic communication network (ECN) for institutions, into the U.S as regulatory certainty increases which the company and believes will give it a first mover advantage. On 1...

S&P Global Ratings warned that as private credit reaches more borrowers, it risks making the credit market more fragmented. Evan Gunter, lead research analyst for private markets analytics at S&P Global, said in a webinar on 10 July tha...