Jane Street Capital

Jane Street Capital
Company typePrivate
IndustryFinancial services
FoundedAugust 31, 1999; 25 years ago (1999-08-31)[1]
Founders
  • Tim Reynolds
  • Rob Granieri
  • Marc Gerstein
  • Michael Jenkins
Headquarters250 Vesey Street,
New York City
,
U.S.
ProductsHigh-frequency trading, Market maker[2]
Number of employees
2,631[3]
ASN
Websitewww.janestreet.com

Jane Street Capital is a global proprietary trading firm.[4] It employs more than 2,600[5] 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.[6]

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.[7]

  1. ^ "Jane Street Capital, LLC :: Delaware (US) :: OpenCorporates". opencorporates.com.
  2. ^ Patterson, Scott; Rogow, Geoffrey (August 1, 2009). "What's Behind High-Frequency Trading". The Wall Street Journal.
  3. ^ "Jane Street Scores $10.6 Billion Trading Haul". Bloomberg.com. 17 April 2024.
  4. ^ "Our Story". Jane Street Capital. Archived from the original on August 31, 2017. Retrieved August 1, 2014.
  5. ^ "Who We Are :: Jane Street". www.janestreet.com. Retrieved 2024-05-22.
  6. ^ "What We Do :: Jane Street". www.janestreet.com. Retrieved 2018-08-08.
  7. ^ Wigglesworth, Robin (28 January 2021). "Jane Street: the top Wall Street firm 'no one's heard of'". Financial Times. Retrieved 29 January 2021.