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

BlackRock Explores Tokenizing ETFs

Laurence Fink, chairman and chief executive of BlackRock, said tokenization is one of the most exciting areas of growth in financial markets. The fund manager envisages a future where investors can use a digital wallet to allocate across crypto, s...

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Hedge Funds Embrace Risk Management

LMAX Digital Traded Over $2bn at the Weekend

LMAX Digital, part of LMAX Group, a regulated marketplace for foreign exchange and digital assets, traded over $2bn during the weekend as an estimated $19bn in leveraged positions were liquidated, the largest in crypto history. Jenna Wright, mana...

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Buy Side Forced to Review Collateral Arrangements

Proliferation of ETFs May Squeeze Balance Sheets

Moves by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in the exchange-traded fund market, which are likely to lead to a proliferation of new products, have led to concerns that the balance sheets of authorized participants may become constrained. ...

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Institutions Move Beyond Bitcoin in CME’s Crypto Complex

CME Group is launching options on solana and XRP futures on 13 October 2025 after average daily volume in cryptocurrency derivatives  reached a record in the third quarter of this year. The group reported record cryptocurrency average daily volum...

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Bank of England Endorses SEFs Ahead of European Clearing Launch

Bank of England “Well Advanced” in Stablecoin Regulation

Sasha Mills, executive director of financial market infrastructure at Bank of England, said the UK central bank is well advanced in developing the detailed regulatory framework for stablecoins. A stablecoin is a type of cryptocurrency which aims t...

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Firms That Do Not Meet T+1 Will Not Survive

The European Union, UK and Switzerland are due to cut their securities settlement cycle by one day to the day following a trade, T+1, and there were warnings that firms that do not meet this standard are likely to go out of business. Andrew Dougl...

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360X Prepares for Hybrid Capital Markets

In 2021 Deutsche Börse and Commerzbank entered a strategic partnership with 360X to develop a trading venue for digital assets. Fast forward four years, and 360X in collaboration with DekaBank, the securities services provider of the German Saving...

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Fair Access Central to Market Review

EMEA Wealth Managers to Add Private Market Allocations

Wealth managers in Europe, Middle East and Africa are expecting to increase allocations to private equity and private credit over the next three to five years, although they cited liquidity as the most common obstacle. State Street Investment Man...

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