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

Buy Side Forced to Review Collateral Arrangements

Capital Efficiency Will ‘Win the Game’ in Crypto

David Martin, the new chief executive of the derivatives business at AsiaNext, the institutional digital asset exchange based in Singapore, said capital efficiency will “win the game” in crypto. AsiaNext said in a statement in August this year th...

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T+1, Digital Asset Adoption Having Most Post-Trade Impact

The impact of T+1, cutting the settlement cycle to the day after a trade, and the increasing adoption of digital assets are having the most significant impact on the post-trade environment. Citi’s latest Securities Services Evolution whitepaper f...

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European ETFs Gather Record Assets

JP Morgan on Track for Record Markets Revenue

Doug Petno, co-chief executive of the commercial & investment bank at JP Morgan, expects markets and investment banking revenues to increase in this quarter. Petno spoke to analyst Jason Goldberg at the Barclays Global Financial Services Conf...

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Summer Trading Network 2016

United Fintech Reshapes Institutional Adoption of New Tech

In August this year Rupsa Mukherjee joined United Fintech as head of mergers and acquisitions after previous roles in corporate finance and investment banking, including Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs. United Fintech was founded in 2020 to allow...

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Nasdaq Files to Trade Tokenized Equities

Nasdaq has submitted a regulatory filing to trade tokenized securities as Galaxy Digital, the digital asset and data center infrastructure firm, has tokenized its Nasdaq-listed stock and crypto firms have launched tokenized versions of U.S equitie...

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Scale is the Name of the Game for Pyth’s Onchain Data

Pyth Network, alongside Chainlink, was chosen by the U.S. Department of Commerce as one of the oracles to post real gross domestic product (GDP) data on the blockchain and the decentralized blockchain-based distribution platform aims to further sc...

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Regulated Spot Crypto Trading will Unlock Capital Efficiency

Market participants said U.S. regulators allowing registered exchanges a facilitate the trading of certain spot commodity products shows that crypto trading is going mainstream, and will unlock capital efficiencies and modernized infrastruture. S...

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Esma Urged to Open Up Trade Reporting Data

Active ETFs to Continue to Grow

VanEck, the U.S. asset manager, has launched TruSector exchange-traded funds which are contributing to the growth of actively managed ETFs as they have reached record inflows and assets under management this year. The TruSector ETFs in the consum...

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