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

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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J.P. Morgan is hiring senior bankers and traders as other firms cut

Cboe to Exit Australia and Canada 

Craig Donohue, chief executive of Cboe Global Markets, took on his role in May this year and has completed a review of the derivatives and securities markets operator. The new strategy includes initiating a sales process for Cboe Australia and Cbo...

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Polymarket Will Help ICE Adopt 24/7 Tokenized Collateral

Jeffrey Sprecher, chair and chief executive of ICE, said one of the attractions of investing in Polymarket was the prediction market's use of smart contracts to take advantage of the new blockchain banking infrastructure, which will help ICE adapt...

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Coinbase AM, Apollo Partner to Tokenize Private Credit

Coinbase Asset Management and Apollo have partnered to create tokenized credit products while several fund managers have enabled onchain access to their credit funds this month. On 27 October 2025 Coinbase Asset Management, a wholly owned subsidi...

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