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

Post-Trade Modernization a “Game Changer” for Canada

On 28 April this year TMX Group, the Canadian financial market  infrastructure, went live with its modernization of CDS, the country’s equities and fixed income clearinghouse, which had begun back in 2019. The project involved replacing some lega...

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SEC Conference Discusses Digital Assets & Tokenization

The U.S. Security and Exchange Commission’s conference on Emerging Trends in Asset Management included a panel discussion on digital assets and tokenization, moderated by Scott Walker, chief compliance officer at venture capital firm a16z. Mike M...

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Vela Trading Targets Fixed Income

Clearstream Targets Growth in Private Market Assets

Clearstream, Deutsche Börse Group’s post-trade services provider, has partnered with fund manager Azimut to develop a digital solution for private market funds as Samuel Riley, chief executive of Clearstream Securities Services, said private marke...

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One Year on From T+1

Just over a year ago the U.S., Canada, and Mexico had cut their securities settlement price to T+1, one day after a trade, by 28 May 2024. This had repercussions across global capital markets, especially for overseas investors, and other regions a...

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U.S. Managers to Bring Private Market Funds to Europe

US fund managers are looking to launch private market funds in Europe as they see increasing demand in the region. Lata Vyas, alternative funds product head in Europe at financial services group Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH), told Markets Media th...

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Canada Fragments

Lynq Aims to Overcome Fragmentation in Digital Asset Settlement

Lynq was formed in April this year and will be integrating Fireblocks, the digital asset infrastructure provider, to make it easier for institutions to access the real-time yield-bearing settlement network for digital assets which is due to go liv...

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CME Boosts European Energy Business

TP ICAP Sees Energy Transition as Growth Opportunity

Interdealer broker TP ICAP believes that the energy transition presents an opportunity, while it can continue to benefit from the continued growth in traditional energy sources. Andrew Polydor, chairman and global head of energy & commoditi...

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Quantum Technology to Take Markets ‘to Mars’

This month JPMorgan Chase and technology company Infleqtion released a new open source quantum software library designed to improve the efficiency of potential applications and use cases. This reinforces the belief of Brad Levy, chief executive of...

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