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

Cybersecurity is Top of Mind for FinServ

Citi to Launch Crypto Custody Next Year

Citi is launching digital asset custody in 2026 and believes it has an advantage in being able to bridge traditional and digital assets on one platform. Market participants expect about 10% of market turnover to be digital in five years according...

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Euroclear Updates EasyFocus+ to Ease T+1 Transition

The majority, 65%, of the  finance community in the European Union are actively engaged in preparing for the transition to a shorter securities settlement in October 2027. The survey, published by the ValueExchange in November this year, covers mo...

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Constructive Activist Funds Seek to Avoid Proxy Battles

Citadel Securities Ignites Debate on Tokenized Equities

Citadel Securities said in a letter to the U.S Seurities and Exchange Commission that it is important not to override key investor protections when trading tokenized securities. The market maker said in the letter that the regulator "should identi...

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Banks Look to Disruptive Innovation

Banks are cautiously optimistic about their prospects and are now thinking about future trends that are shaping banking and disruptive innovation which serves their customers. Tanuj Kapilashrami, chief strategy & talent officer at Standard Ch...

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Warsaw Stock Exchange Aims to Continue IPOs

Stamp Duty Change ‘Very Important’ for UK IPOs

Anthony Gutman, co‑chief executive of Goldman Sachs International and global co-head of investment banking said initial public offerings are coming back to London in 20206 and beyond and that the change in stamp duty is very important to attract i...

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Eurex Adds to ‘Futurization’ with QIS Index Contracts

Deutsche Börse Group’s derivatives trading and clearing business confirmed that it is launching Quantitative Investment Strategies (QIS) index futures on 1 December 2025, adding to its efforts to futurize over-the-counter products. Eurex’s “futur...

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Threats of Cyberattack Mount

CME Outage is ‘True Black Swan’

https://twitter.com/CMEGroup/status/1994258309784731926 https://twitter.com/CMEGroup/status/1994351505864827086 https://twitter.com/CMEGroup/status/1994395477840990459 https://twitter.com/CMEGroup/status/1994402583797199339 Ben Kizemchuk, seni...

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View of a World Traveler

U.K. Risks Becoming ‘Flyover Zone’ for Crypto

Market participants warned that the U.K. needs to decide its approach to digital money, especially towards stablecoins, or it risks falling behind other jurisdictions. Katie Harries, head of policy, Europe at U.S.-listed digital asset exchange op...

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