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

BlackRock’s Tokenized Fund Used to Back New Stablecoin

Frax Finance, a decentralized stablecoin cryptocurrency protocol, has launched a stablecoin backed by a tokenized fund from BlackRock as digital fungible collateral is expected to transform capital markets. On 2 January 2025 Frax Finance said in ...

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Active ETFs and Fixed Income to Drive Flows

Nearly all exchange-traded fund issuers are  developing or planning to develop a transparent active ETF product according to Cerulli Associates, the fund data provider. Cerulli said in a report that 91% of ETF issuers are developing or planning t...

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TradFi Expected to Issue Stablecoins in 2025

There will be at least ten stablecoin launches backed by TradFi (traditional finance) partnerships according to researchers at Galaxy, the digital asset and blockchain firm. Stablecoins are a type of cryptocurrency designed to maintain a stable p...

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2025 is Pivotal Year for Tokenization Growth

Coinbase Institutional views 2025 as a pivotal year for growth in tokenization, which involves representing real world assets such as real estate, art, equities, and bonds as digital tokens on a blockchain. The US-listed crypto exchange’s 2025 Cr...

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OSTTRA, FIS Partner to Transform ETD Processing

OSTTRA, the post-trade solutions provider, and financial technology provider FIS are collaborating to make post-trade processing to exchange-traded derivatives more efficient, and help market participants meet the new requirements from the FIA’s D...

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Sustainable Investment Expected to Rise Despite Backlash

Nearly three quarters of investors expect the sustainable investment market to grow significantly in the next one to two years despite political backlash and regulatory scrutiny. The fifteenth edition of US SIF Foundation’s Report on US Sustainab...

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European Fund Management Assets Reach Record

Global Public Pension, Sovereign Funds Want Private Assets

Four of the top five asset classes with the highest demand from global public pension and sovereign funds are in private markets. The Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum, an independent forum for central banking, economic policy an...

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Cboe Data Vantage Reflects New Vision 

Cboe Global Markets has renamed its Data and Access Solutions segment as Data Vantage, which it said better reflects the business as it includes data and access; analytics and execution; and indices. Adam Inzirillo, global head of Data Vantage at...

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