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 Concerned About Collateral Costs

Digital Asset Themes in 2025: Mobile Collateral, Cash Onchain

Lawrence Wintermeyer, executive co-chair of Global Digital Finance, a global not for-profit promoting fair and transparent markets for crypto and digital assets, said the market had its “Berlin Wall moment” when the US Securities and Exchange Comm...

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DTCC Aims to Accelerate Adoption of Digital Assets

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the US post-trade market infrastructure, is contributing its own technology into an industry sandbox to help market participants move more efficiently from digital asset proofs of concept int...

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Cboe Reduces Latency on US Equities Exchanges by 60%

Cboe Global Markets has reduced latency on its US equity exchanges by 60% by introducing dedicated cores, and expects similar results when the new architecture is rolled out to its overseas markets. In the first half of this year dedicated cores ...

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OptAxe to Launch MTF as FX Options Reach Inflection Point

OptAxe has received regulatory approval to operate a multilateral trading facility for axe-driven FX options trading, where the majority of the volume is still voice traded. In October this year OptAxe said in a statement that it has received aut...

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ICE Climate Takes ‘Big Step Forward’ with Dun & Bradstreet

ICE has partnered with Dun & Bradstreet, who has built up one of the largest private company databases, to add to the climate and environmental, social and governance data that the group already provides across global public companies, U.S. mu...

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MiFID II Prompts Banks to Keep Time

Bitnomial Aims to Launch First US Perpetual Futures Venue

Bitnomial, a regulated digital asset derivatives exchange, is looking for regulatory approval to offer perpetual futures trading in the US as EDXM Global intends to launch a venue for these contracts in Singapore. On Bitnomial investors can trade...

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Senior Women Better Represented in FTSE 100 than S&P 100

Senior women are better represented in the FTSE 100 than their counterparts in the S&P 100, according to leadership advisory firm Russell Reynolds Associates, even though only 12 firms in the UK’S flagship index have achieved gender parity in ...

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SDX & RULEMATCH Eliminate Need to Pre-Fund Crypto Trades

SIX Digital Exchange will provide segregated custody to RULEMATCH, the Swiss spot crypto trading and settlement venue for institutions, eliminating the need for them to pre-finance their trading activities as assets will be held securely off-venue...

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