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Shanny Basar

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

Beyond Liquidity: Tokenization could improve bond liquidity & transparency

Bond markets could potentially use tokenization to improve efficiency, liquidity and transparency according to the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) as consultancy McKinsey said tokenization may have reached an inflection point for certain use...

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Beyond Liquidity: T+1 Testing Begins

DTCC, the US post-trade market infrastructure, formally started the testing program for moving to a shorter settlement cycle on 14 August so market participants can fully evaluate their end-to-end processes before implementation next year.   Fi...

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Local currency emerging market trading grows at MarketAxess

MarketAxess, the operator of an electronic trading platform for fixed-income securities, has seen a rise in volumes of local currency bond trading in emerging markets since releasing its local market automation solution to all 28 EM countries at t...

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Beyond Liquidity: Regulators warn on alternative Libor rates

Libor, the benchmark interest rate that was embedded in hundreds of trillions of dollars of financial contracts around the world, ceased publication at the end of June and regulators have warned that certain alternatives being considered in the ...

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Beyond Liquidity: Rebundling Research Will Not Increase Demand for UK SMEs

With the implementation of MiFID II in 2018 came the unbundling of payments for investment research from trading commissions. The perceived benefit of unbundling was to provide investors with greater transparency over the products (research) and...

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Regulation Brings TradFi and DeFi Worlds Together

The European Union passed a legal framework for crypto-assets in the region in April this year, covering markets that are not regulated by existing financial services legislation. The approval of the Markets in Crypto-assets (MiCA) regulation mean...

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Beyond Liquidity: Investors Turn to Fixed Income Dark Trading During Market Stress

Dark pool trading in credit markets offers numerous benefits on a day-to-day basis, and can increase during periods of market stress. A recent example of heightened market activity was when Credit Suisse’s Additional Tier 1 (AT1) bonds were writ...

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Beyond Liquidity: Optimism grows for European consolidated tape

Investors have been calling for a consolidated tape in Europe, which gives them aggregated data on trading volumes and prices throughout the region in one place, for more than a decade without success. However, there is now optimism that a u...

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