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

Kaiko Aims to Enable New Generation of Onchain Products

Ambre Soubiran is chief executive of Kaiko, which was founded in Paris in 2014 to provide institutional-grade data, analytics, and data infrastructure across centralized and decentralized digital asset markets, covering spot and derivatives tradin...

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Clock Synchronization: A Matter of Timing

Nasdaq Aims to Debut 23/5 Trading on 6 December 2026

Nasdaq plans to go live with trading equities 23 hours day for five days a week on 6 December 2026 as part of its Always‑On market initiative to advance the modernization of markets Adena Friedman, chair and chief executive of Nasdaq, said on the...

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CME Seeks License to Become Stablecoin Issuer

Terry Duffy, chairman and chief executive of CME Group, said on the first quarter results call on 22 April 2026 that capital efficiencies provided to clients hit a new high in the first three months of this year, with over $85bn in average daily m...

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Derivatives in Tokenized Commodities Begin to Emerge

FalconX said derivatives activity in tokenized commodities could be a $5bn market as the digital assets prime broker executed the first tokenized gold derivatives trade referencing the PAX Gold token. Each PAXG token is backed by one fine troy oun...

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State Street IM Builds Dedicated Sector ETF Team

State Street Investment Management has built a dedicated Sector ETF global team of 18 sales specialists and strategists after bringing the distribution and marketing of 11 Select Sector SPDR ETFs in-house. Anna Paglia, chief business officer at S...

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Traditional Financial Institutions Add to Onchain Data

Six large financial institutions have agreed to publish data on the Pyth Network, while the data of equities listed on SIX Swiss Exchange and BME Exchange is being published on another data oracle, Chainlink. On a blockchain, trust or verificatio...

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Instinet authorised for cash research payments

BlackRock Reports $9bn Net Inflows in Private Markets

BlackRock reported that it had net inflows of $9bn in private markets in the first quarter of 2026, led by private credit and infrastructure, amid investors across the industry asking to withdraw their capital due to concerns about potential losse...

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Infrastructure Needed to Turn Tokenized Assets into Functioning Markets

The transferable tokenized real world asset (RWA) market is predicted to expanding from $27bn to $400bn by 2030 according to a report from crypto investment firm KeyRock and tokenization platform Securitize.  Freely transferable RWA tokens  are is...

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