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

Blockchain to Unlock Collateral Movement, More Efficient Financing 

FT Partners, an investment banking firm focused on the financial technology sector, hosted a webinar, Tokenization of Real World Assets: The State of Play, on 16 December 2025.  Adena Friedman, chair and chief executive of Nasdaq, said the U.S. e...

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ClearToken Launches CLS-Type Settlement for Crypto

On the surface, there may not be appear to be a connection between the collapse of a German bank about 50 years ago and today’s crypto market. The link starts on the afternoon of 26 June 1974, when German regulators were forced to close Bankhaus ...

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Zodia Custody Prepares for Fusion of Digital Assets, TradFi

At the beginning of this year Anoosh Arevshatia took on the role of chief product officer at Zodia Custody, the institutional digital asset custody firm backed by Standard Chartered Bank, Japan's SBI Group, Northern Trust, and National Australia B...

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Institutions Reach ‘Defining Moment’ with Blockchain

J.P. Morgan Asset Management and State Street Investment Management have become the latest traditional financial institutions to launch tokenized funds as institutional adoption is expected to snowball in 2026. Kelly Mathieson, chief business d...

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Integral Debuts Stablecoin-Based ‘Uber’ of Prime Brokers

Integral, which provides cloud-based foreign exchange and digital asset technology, said it has launched the first stablecoin-based crypto prime brokerage to provide institutional-grade credit, trading, and net settlement in an integrated platform...

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SEC’s Crenshaw Warns on Markets Turning into Casinos

Caroline Crenshaw, commissioner at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, spoke about the future of financial regulation at The Brookings Institution in Washington, DC on 11 December 2025. She is the only commissioner who is a Democrat and s...

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Hedge Funds Seek Outsourcing Alternatives

Expanding Buy-Side Franchise Critical to Deutsche Börse

At Deutsche Börse’s capital markets day in London on 10 October 2025, senior managers spoke about the group’s new strategy, “Leading the Transformation.” Chief executive Stephan Leithner said he wanted to explain how to take Deutsche Börse forward...

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CFTC’s Pilot for Digital Asset Collateral is ‘Massive’

Caroline Pham, acting chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, said in statement that the U.S regulator is launching a digital assets pilot program for certain digital assets to be used as collateral in derivatives markets and that es...

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