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

European Banking Authority Finds Material Gender Pay Gap in 2023

The European Banking Authority found that women earned materially less than men in financial institutions and investment firms, with a bigger gap in  investment firms. The EBA’s Report on Remuneration and Gender Pay Gap Benchmarking found that, o...

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Nasdaq, AWS Offer New Cloud-Based Market Infrastructure to Clients

Nasdaq and Amazon Web Service (AWS) have expanded their existing partnership in order to  offer its financial services clients new cloud-based solutions. Adena Friedman, chair and chief executive of Nasdaq, said on the first quarter results call ...

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Volatility Back 'With a Vengeance'

Four of CME’s Top Five Trading Days Have Been in 2025

CME Group’s first quarter average daily volume (ADV) reached a high of 29.8 million contracts, which led to the group reporting record revenue, operating income and earnings per share for the first three months of this year. Terry Duffy, CME Gr...

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Crypto Derivatives Advance in U.S.

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission is consulting on perpetual derivatives contracts as crypto exchange Coinbase and Bitnomial Exchange, the  CFTC-regulated venue that offers physically settled digital asset derivatives, both launch new cr...

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WisdomTree Connect Expands Tokenized Funds Suite

Investors can now access 13 tokenized funds on WisdomTree Connect, the asset manager’s platform which offers crypto-native institutions access to tokenized real world assets. Maredith Hannon, head of business development, digital assets at Wisdom...

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Coinbase Brings Institutional Trading On-Chain With Verified Pools

Coinbase, the listed US crypto exchange, launched Verified Pools in March this year as a stepping stone towards moving trading on-chain for both retail and institutional participants. In decentralized finance (DeFi), liquidity pools allow users to...

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R.J. O’Brien Acquisition Takes StoneX to ‘Next Level’

Sean O’Connor, founder and executive vice chairman of global financial services network StoneX Group, said on a conference call on 14 April that the firm was very excited to announce the “transformational transaction” of its acquisition of R.J. O’...

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ETFs Have Record Trading Volumes

Exchange-traded funds in the US had record trading volumes as volatility increased following the Trump administration’s tariff announcements. https://twitter.com/EricBalchunas/status/1910796159381102592 Jeff Sardinha, Americas head of ETF soluti...

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