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

Apollo to Shift Private Markets Infrastructure with Custody & Settlement

Apollo has introduced daily pricing across its credit portfolio, introduced unique private securities identifiers and set up a dedicated secondary trading desk for credit. The alternatives manager said the next step is to introduce clearing and se...

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Deutsche Borse-LSE Merger in Focus

Capitolis Expands into Securities Lending

Capitolis has completed its $200m acquisition of eSecLending to add a securities lending business to the financial resource optimization solutions already provided by the financial technology company. Portfolio optimization cleans up bank balance...

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Cboe Has ‘First Mover Advantage’ in KPI Contracts

Cboe Global Markets is preparing to launch key performance indicators (KPI) contracts in November this year, ahead of other exchanges who have made regulatory filings to launch similar products. Craig Donohue, chief executive of Cboe Global Marke...

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ICE Invests in TradeXYZ to Build Regulated Perpetual Market

Intercontinental Exchange has invested in TradeXYZ, which develops onchain markets, to build a new regulated market and clearing structure on the Hyperliquid blockchain after funding OKX, a blockchain technology and trading company, in March this...

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Nasdaq Invests in Always-On Markets

Nasdaq has launched Eqlipse Digital to connect tokenized markets with trusted financial market infrastructure and Nasdaq Ventures has invested in One Trading, the regulated European 24/7 trading venue. Nasdaq Eqlipse Digital went live on 28 Octobe...

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Anthropic Pre-IPO Perpetuals Go Live

The pre-IPO (initial public offering) perpetual futures market for AI firm Anthropic has gone live on the Hyperliquid blockchain, as previous contracts have closed within an average of 25% of the IPO issue price. Perpetual futures are contract...

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CIB in ‘Golden Window for Growth’

The combined revenue pool for corporate and investment banking (CIB) and nonbank financial institutions (NBFIs) this year will be more than 7% higher than in 2025, reaching $1.4 trillion by 2030, according to Boston Consulting Group. In a study, ...

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Invesco Expands QQQ Innovation Suite Internationally

Asset manager Invesco has offered the first internationally focused strategy in its QQQ innovation suite with an exchange-traded fund that invests in companies outside the U.S. Brian Hartigan, Invesco On 23 September the U.S. fund manager s...

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