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

Compute Becomes ‘Currency of the AI Age’

CME Group is aiming to launch compute futures in October this year and Architect Financial Technologies, a multinational derivatives exchange group that focuses on the AI economy and perpetual futures, has applied for regulatory approval to launch...

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U.K. Asset Managers Progress Fund Tokenization

In July this year Aviva Investors launched a tokenized share class of an existing fund and Schroders received regulatory approval for its first tokenized share class of a U.S. dollar money market fund. The Tokenization Insight newsletter highlight...

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FIS Launches Digital Money Network for Banks

In April this year fintech FIS announced Project Keystone, a network for digital money that is being developed with U.S. banks including Citizens, Fifth Third, Huntington Bank, KeyBank, and M&T Bank. Project Keystone enables banks to issue, tr...

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Pictet AM Expands Active ETFs Driven by AI into Europe

Pictet Asset Management has reached $5bn in assets under management in its artificial intelligence-driven strategies (including its long/short strategies) and in July this year the firm launched its first range of European AI enhanced equity index...

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MIAX Aims to Grow Financial Futures Suite

Miami International Holdings (MIAX), which operates regulated exchanges across multiple asset classes, launched its first group of Bloomberg index products in May this year as it aims to grow its financial futures suite. Thomas Gallagher, chairma...

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Galaxy Adds to Vault Ecosystem

Galaxy Digital, a digital asset and data center infrastructure firm, launched an institutional vault curation offering in July this year as the vault ecosystem is expected to continue to consolidate and become more institutional. Hester Peirce, th...

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Omega Proposes Dynamic Pricing Model

Apollo Drives Toward Daily Net Asset Values for Fixed Income

Apollo Global Management has launched daily pricing for its investment-grade fixed income suite of products as it seeks to increase transparency in private markets. Marc Rowan, chairman and chief executive officer of Apollo Global Management, said...

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Buy Side Forced to Review Collateral Arrangements

DTCC Tokenization Service Targets Balance Sheet Efficiency

In July this year DTCC, the central U.S. post-trade market infrastructure, converted real world assets in its custody into tokens to be used in a series of real production trades across asset classes involving both traditional and crypto-native fi...

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