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.

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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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MEMX to Launch Second Options Exchange in Q2 2026

MEMX is due to launch a second options exchange in the second quarter of 2026 after its first options venue reached record monthly market share this year.  MEMX Options launched in September 2023 with 22 firms participating in the first three day...

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Continuity Funds are Strategic Priority for Schroders Capital

Nils Rode, chief investment officer at Schroders Capital, said continuation investments are a strategic priority as the private markets division of UK asset manager Schroders predicted that total investment volumes in the sector will increase four...

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SEC Advances ETF Share Class

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has allowed Dimensional Fund Advisors to launch an exchange-traded fund (ETF) share class of an existing mutual fund, and the regulator is expected to quickly allow other fund managers to do the same. T...

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Crypto Enters ‘Era of Substance’

Nandini Sukumar, chief executive of the World Federation of Exchanges, said all of the organisation's 300+ members, which include exchanges and clearinghouses, are at least thinking about tokenization. Sukumar spoke on a panel at the annual Fin...

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Fund Managers Warn on Esma Research Proposals

David Solomon Warns on Private Credit

David Solomon, chair and chief executive of Goldman Sachs, warned that risks may be building in private credit and that the industry needs to be careful when widening access to retail investors, especially as there has not been a credit cycle in s...

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Simplified Reporting Moves Up Agenda

Regulators should prioritise simplified reporting for financial crime and transaction reporting, according to market participants. Edwin Schooling Latter, head of Compliance UK at Japanese bank Mizuho, said financial crime and transaction reporti...

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Industry Gets Ready for “Crypto’s ETPalooza”

The U.S Securities and Exchange Commission said in a statement on 17 September 2025 that it had voted to approve proposed rule changes by three national securities exchanges to adopt generic listing standards for exchange-traded products that hold...

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