Description
Jane Street Capital is a global proprietary trading firm. It employs more than 2600 people in six offices in New York, London, Hong Kong, Amsterdam, Chicago, and Singapore, and trades a broad range of asset classes on more than 200 venues in 45 countries.
It is among the principal market-makers – in 2020 it traded more than $17 trillion worth of securities. It was considered to have helped keep bond exchange-traded funds (ETFs) liquid during the market turmoil in 2020.
History
Jane Street was co-founded by Tim Reynolds, Rob Granieri, Marc Gerstein, and Michael Jenkins. Reynolds, Granieri, and Jenkins were formerly traders at Susquehanna International Group. It was started in either 1999 or 2000.
In 2012, Tim Reynolds stepped down from his position running the firm.