Shanny Basar

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...

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...

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. ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...