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

Appital Unlocks Immediate Block Execution with Citadel Securities

Appital, a liquidity discovery platform for the buy side, has integrated Citadel Securities as a liquidity provider to offer the reliability of continuous live prices. The firm was launched three years ago to automate equities block trading for t...

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BMO ‘Last Call’ Aims to Trade Into the Close Opportunistically

As volume increasingly aggregates around the closing auction on stock exchanges, BMO Capital Markets is launching an algorithm that can trade this aggregation of liquidity more opportunistically. Eric Stockland, co-head of global electronic tradi...

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EMSAC Looks to Reduce Trading Halts

AMC CEO Praises SEC Innovation Order After Robinhood Spat

Adam Aron, chief executive of AMC, who objected to Robinhood tokenizing the cinema chain’s shares in a wrapper without permission, praised the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s innovation exemption on trading tokenized equities. On 3 Sept...

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From Disruption, Valu

Incumbent Exchanges to Benefit from Disruptors

Tokenization, prediction markets, perpetuals and extended trading hours could expand the market for incumbent exchanges rather than take business away from them even as competition is grows from venues such as Kalshi, Polymarket, and Hyperliquid a...

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SEC, CFTC Expected to Act After CLARITY Failure

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity and Futures Trading Commission are expected to use their existing powers to set rules for digital asset market structure after the U.S. Senate failed to vote through the CLARITY Act on 15 S...

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Fair Access Central to Market Review

Institutional Access Increases in Prediction Markets

Digital assets prime brokerage FalconX, investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald and U.S. based clearing firm Phillip Capital have all recently taken steps to expand institutional access to event contracts on Kalshi, the CFTC-regulated prediction market....

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CBOE Expands Index Options, Volatility Suite

Clay Swaps From Index User to Index Provider

Catherine Clay was used to partnering with index providers in her previous role as global head of derivatives at Cboe Global Markets, leading the exchange's global options and futures businesses and its Data Vantage arm. Since 1 November 2025 she ...

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Fund Managers Warn on Esma Research Proposals

SEC Urged Not to Degrade NBBO

Panellists warned the U.S Securities and Exchange Commission that changes to Rule 611, or the trade-through rule, could potentially harm the quality of the NBBO. The National Best Bid and Offer is a composite of the highest bid and lowest offer a...

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