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

Interoperability Required for Digital Asset Infrastructure

Market participants and regulators discussed digital innovation in Europe at AFME’s  5th Annual European Financial Integration Conference and said interoperability is key for the nascent ecosystem. Fiona van Echelpoel, deputy director general, di...

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Erdoes Lays Out Path to $10 Trillion in AUM at JPMorgan

Mary Callahan Erdoes, chief executive of asset & wealth management at JPMorganChase, said the business will receive its largest ever investment spend this year and described how it could grow to more than $10 trillion in assets, from the curre...

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Turquoise, LeveL Markets Partnership Provides ‘Best of Both Services’

Turquoise Global, the London Stock Exchange Group’s pan-European trading venue and LeveL Markets, which operates the US Luminex alternative trading system (ATS), have partnered to offer a new order type and “unique liquidity.” In April this year ...

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Tradeweb Draws Buy Side in Europe

Euronext’s Record FICC Volumes Boost Revenue

In the first quarter of  2025, Euronext reported record revenue and income of €458.5m, an increase of 14.1% from a year ago. Stéphane Boujnah, chief executive and chairman of the managing board of Euronext, said on the first quarter call on 15 May...

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2025 is Critical for Scaling Tokenization

Boris Spremo, head of enterprise/financial services for software developer Polygon Labs, described the launch of the first fully regulated trading platform for tokenized real estate on the Polygon blockchain as “pivotal”, as he expects to see majo...

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Trading Europe From ‘Across the Pond’

Euronext Aims to Become European Retail Exchange for Derivatives

Euronext, the European capital market infrastructure, is entering the fixed income derivatives market via the retail segment, and has launched a retail educational program in five countries, as it aims to become the region’s retail exchange for de...

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New Collateral Transformers To Emerge

Accelerated Digital Asset Collateral is ‘Holy Grail’

Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the U.S. post-trade market infrastructure, has launched a new unified digital collateral infrastructure for the industry. Nadine Chakar, global head of DTCC Digital Assets, told Markets Media tha...

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Cboe May Return to M&A Under New CEO

Craig Donohue, who will take over as chief executive of Cboe Global Markets, successfully completed more than $20bn in mergers and acquisitions when he led CME Group, and will consider both organic and inorganic growth strategies. Fredric Tomcz...

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