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

Nomination of Mike Selig as CFTC Chair Progresses

On 20 November 2025, the nomination of Mike Selig as chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission passed the Senate Agriculture Committee. For the last eight months Selig was chief counsel of the Crypto Task Force & senior advisor to Cha...

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Xtrackers Focuses on Retail and Geographic Growth

Xtrackers helped boost assets under management of its parent, Germany’s DWS Group, to record levels in the third quarter of this year and the exchange-traded fund business is focussed on attracting more retail investors in Europe and expanding geo...

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Asset Managers Assess Cybersecurity

Eurex Looks to Unlock Growth Capacity

Robbert Booij has been chief executive of Eurex since July 2024 and from April this year Deutsche Börse Group’s derivatives trading and clearing arm implemented organizational changes which he believes will unlock new capacity for growth. Booij t...

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Climate Impact X Chooses Yaala Labs’ Cloud-Based P8 Platform

Climate Impact X (CIX), an exchange for trading carbon credits and renewable energy certificates, selected Yaala Labs, the financial technology provider, to consolidate all its trading venues into a single, integrated cloud-based platform. CIX ca...

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Euronext Transforms Over a Decade

In his first interview as manager of Liverpool football club, Jürgen Klopp said his aim was to change doubters into believers. Stéphane Boujnah has been on a similar journey since becoming chief executive officer and chairman of the managing board...

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MEFF Aims to Expand Derivatives to Retail, European Stocks

MEFF launched European-style cash-settled options this year and is also developing a retail strategy. The derivatives market of Spanish exchange group BME also has plans to expand its derivatives contracts from Spanish to European stocks. Cloti...

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Crypto Reinventing Capital Formation Will be 2026 Theme

Coinbase, the listed U.S crypto exchange, is launching an end-to-end token sales platform which Matt Hougan, chief Investment officer of digital asset fund manager Bitwise, said this is the beginning of crypto reinventing capital formation. On 10...

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Institutional Appetite for Digital Assets Grows

TP ICAP, a long-established name in traditional finance, launched a digital asset business in 2019. Duncan Trenholme, global co-head of digital assets at TP ICAP, discussed increasing institutional interest on the Open Order Podcast, a Traders Mag...

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