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.

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Securitize Tokenizes Own Public Stock Alongside NYSE Listing

Securitize began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on 2 July 2026 and the tokenization platform also put its own stock onchain on the Solana and Avalanche blockchains. The firm said in a statement that by tokenizing its own public stock on t...

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Flow Traders Increases Digital Asset Revenues

Flow Traders, a global trading firm based in Amsterdam, said its digital asset revenues increased from €15m in 2019 to €120m this year as it aims to become the 24/7 liquidity provider of choice across both traditional and digital assets. In June ...

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180-year Old New York Life Adds to Tokenized Funds

New York Life was founded more than 180 years ago but its asset management business has launched one of the first onchain high yield bond offerings according to the mutual life insurer. The asset management business, New York Life Investment Mana...

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Vela Trading Targets Fixed Income

Deutsche Börse’s IMS Eyes ‘Sweet Spot’

Deutsche Börse’s Investment Management Solutions division sees opportunities in helping the buy side replace legacy systems as asset managers look to create a competitive edge through their infrastructure to improve investor outcomes. Deutsche Bör...

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Buy Side Forced to Review Collateral Arrangements

DTCC Tokenization Initiative Will be ‘Transformational’

On Saturday mornings in 2025 and January 2026 a working group completed a series of live repo trades across the Canton network, Digital Assets’ blockchain for financial institutions with built-in privacy controls, using tokenized U.S. Treasuries a...

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Basel Committee Consults on Interest-Rate Risk

Morpho Aims to Bring All $200tr of Global Credit Onchain

In June this year Morpho, the open blockchain-based credit network, announced that it had raised $175m, which it said was the largest in decentralized finance (DeFi) to date. The funding round was co-led by venture capitalists Paradigm, a16z crypt...

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Fixed-Income ETFs Expand in Europe

Kraken Looks to Expand Perpetual Futures Suite

Crypto exchange Kraken has launched crypto perpetual futures in the U.S and is looking to expand the contracts into other asset classes and allow customers to use crypto assets as collateral. On 29 May 2026 the Commodities and Futures Trading Comm...

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Archax Advances Collateral Mobility with $GOVY Token

Archax, the UK/EU regulated digital asset platform, has launched a token which combines the safety and familiarity of short-dated US Treasury bills with the removal of the complexity of rolling over positions when the bills mature and the advantag...

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