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Jane Street Capital

Jane Street Capital is an American trading firm headquartered in New York City.

History

Jane Street was founded in August 1999 by Tim Reynolds, Rob Granieri, Marc Gerstein, and Michael Jenkins - all former employees of Susquehanna International Group (SIG), minus Gerstein, who worked at IBM.1) 2)

COVID-19 pandemic

Jane Street earned over $6 billion in profit during the first half of 2020 alone.3)

1)
Delaware Department of State: Division of Corporations. (2022, December 4). JANE STREET CAPITAL, LLC. OpenCorporates. http://archive.today/2023.03.23-221930/https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_de/3091466
2)
Massa, A. (2018, November 20). The Poker Aces Playing a Key Hand in the $5 Trillion ETF Market. BNN Bloomberg. https://web.archive.org/web/20230323222357/https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/the-poker-aces-playing-a-key-hand-in-the-5-trillion-etf-market-1.1170906
3)
Wigglesworth, R. (2021, January 28). Jane Street: the top Wall Street firm “no one’s heard of.” Financial Times. http://archive.today/2021.02.03-060847/https://www.ft.com/content/81811f27-4a8f-4941-99b3-2762cae76542?shareType=nongift