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Morbi pretium leo et nisl aliquam mollis. Quisque arcu lorem, ultricies quis pellentesque nec, ullamcorper eu odio. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) charged ten senior staff and employees at four crypto "market‑making" firms with running fraudulent campaigns designed to pump up both the trading volume and the price of certain digital assets. The charges, announced by the DOJ on a Monday press release, include employees from the firms Gotbit, Vortex, Antier and Contrarian. Three of the defe ...Read More >
Sebi passed an interim order against Elitecon International and barred key promoters over alleged misleading disclosures, governance lapses and suspicious trading. The regulator flagged unusual price movements, irregular shareholding changes and discrepancies in operations, signalling possible manipulation and prompting further scrutiny as proceedings continue to determine liabilities and penalties. Market regulator Sebi has passed an interim order against Elitecon International Ltd and barred ...Read More >
Mumbai: The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has barred Elitecon International and its promoter Vipin Sharma from the securities market, alleging stock price manipulation and misleading disclosures. In an interim ex-parte order, the regulator has directed Sharma and four other individuals to return ₹51 crore of illegal gains. Sebi's investigation found that Elitecon's stock witnessed an extraordinary surge - from around ₹11in August 2024 to a peak of ₹629 in June 2025 - despite ne ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Congress party on Saturday demanded that Parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) investigate the Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) following a US media report alleging the public sector company made significant investments in Adani Group's securities after they suffered market losses. However, the LIC denied the allegations, calling them "false, baseless, and far from the truth." The opposition party's attack was spurred by a report in The Washington Post, which, ci ...Read More >
New Delhi, Oct 25: The Congress, on Saturday, demanded that Parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) investigate the Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) following an US media report that the public sector company made huge investments in Adani Group's securities after they took a beating in the markets. However, the LIC denied the allegations as "false, baseless, and far from the truth". Congress general secretary in-charge of communications Jairam Ramesh alleged the savings of LIC's 30 crore ...Read More >
Mumbai: A special court on Tuesday rejected former stockbroker Ketan Parekh's plea to travel abroad, his sixth such request. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) opposed his plea, alleging it was driven by a "calculated intent" to minimise his and his entities' digital footprints and a "sinister motive" to avoid court proceedings. SEBI said the case was at the stage of recording of evidence.Anubha Rastogi, special public prosecutor for SEBI, who tendered its reply, was present in co ...Read More >
Mumbai: Alleging it was driven by a "calculated intent" to minimise his and his entities' digital footprints, and a "sinister motive" to avoid court proceedings, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) opposed former stockbroker Ketan Parekh's plea to travel abroad, his sixth such request. The trial court, before which Sebi submitted its reply to Parekh's application, is likely to decide the matter on Tuesday.The Sebi case against Parekh is for alleged offences related to securities ma ...Read More >
Jane Street faces scrutiny from India's Sebi over alleged manipulation in the options market, involving a hefty penalty and trading ban. The firm is appealing to SAT, arguing Sebi withheld exculpatory evidence. The outcome will determine Jane Street's future in India and test Sebi's enforcement transparency, impacting investor confidence in the booming options market. When Jane Street, a global trading powerhouse, was slapped with a Rs 4,800 crore penalty and a trading ban by India's market reg ...Read More >
Indian tax authorities and market regulator are considering widening their probe of United States trading giant Jane Street Group to investigate it for tax evasion in addition to an earlier charge of price rigging in the Bombay Stock Exchange's benchmark Sensex, according to media reports. The tax evasion charge comes on the heels of market regulator, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), seizing 48.43 billion rupees ($570m) and banning four Jane Street-related entities from operat ...Read More >
MUMBAI: The markets watchdog Sebi has said the New York based algo trader Jane Street, which was banned from the market on July 3 for alleged market manipulation, has complied with its directive to deposit Rs 4,843.5 crore in an escrow account. Following this the company has also made a request to lift certain conditional restrictions the regulator had slapped on it through the interim order. Jane Street's request for removal of certain conditional restrictions is under consideration, Sebi sai ...Read More >
New Delhi: US-based hedge fund Jane Street, which allegedly made handsome gains through market manipulation, has deposited the mandated Rs 4,843.57 crore in an escrow account in favour of Sebi and requested it to lift certain restrictions. The watchdog is examining the request, Sebi said in a statement on Monday. In an interim order on July 3, the regulator found Jane Street (JS) guilty of manipulating indices by taking bets in cash and futures & options markets simultaneously for making massiv ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 14 (PTI) US-based hedge fund Jane Street, which allegedly made handsome gains through market manipulation, has deposited the mandated Rs 4,843.57 crore in an escrow account in favour of Sebi and requested it to lift certain restrictions. The watchdog is examining the request, Sebi said in a statement on Monday. In an interim order on July 3, the regulator found Jane Street (JS) guilty of manipulating indices by taking bets in cash and futures & options markets simultaneously for ...Read More >
Mumbai: Former Sebi chief Madhabi Puri Buch has come out strongly against those pointing fingers at the regulator in the Jane Street market manipulation case, indicating it was a regulatory failure due to which US-based algo trading major Jane Street thrived with its alleged illegal acts for years. On Tuesday, Puri Buch issued a statement saying it was in April 2024 (when she was at the helm) that Sebi had formed a team of officials from various departments and started looking into Jane Street's ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: The Congress on Tuesday questioned market regulator Sebi and the government for failing to protect the interest of small investors and check outflow of "illegal profits" made by US algorithm trading firm Jane Street through stock market manipulation.Addressing a press conference here, Congress' head of social media department Supriya Shrinate said Jane Street, which manipulated the Indian stock market through algorithms and made thousands of crores in illegal profits in the Futures an ...Read More >
New Delhi: Illegal gains in the Jane Street scandal may not be limited to Rs 4,843 crore but may actually amount to as high as Rs 1 lakh crore, sources told Zee Business. They also said that the Jane Group's involvement in alleged market manipulation extends beyond the known four entities, with 3-4 more associated firms under the scanner. The revelation comes days after capital market regulator SEBI cracked its whip on Jane Street, barring the US-based high-frequency trading firm from Dalal Stre ...Read More >
BENGALURU: Jane Street has told staff it will contest a ban by India's financial regulator which has accused the U.S. high-frequency trading giant of market manipulation, adding that its practices in question were "basic index arbitrage trading". Jane Street said it was "beyond disappointed" by what it called "extremely inflammatory" accusations from the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) and is working on a formal response, according to an internal email sent to employees over the w ...Read More >
Mumbai: Capital markets regulator Sebi chairman Tuhin Kanta Pandey on Saturday made it clear that market manipulation is not going to be tolerated. Speaking with reporters a day after an interim order against New York-based hedge fund manager Jane Street, Pandey said surveillance has been increased both by the regulator and also at the exchange level. When asked if similar patterns have been seen with other foreign portfolio investors as well, Pandey said, "All what I can say that market manip ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar: ASI on Monday completed the ambitious repair and restoration of Jagannath temple's Ratna Bhandar (treasury), paving the way for a much-awaited inventory of the valuables, carried out last in 1978."The extensive repair work, which began on December 17, 2024, required about 333 hours (332 hours and 47 minutes precisely) of labour, spanning 95 days. Our next step is to shift the valuables from the temporary strongrooms to the renovated Ratna Bhandar. Subsequently, inventory of the valu ...Read More >
MUMBAI: Sebi chief Tuhin Kanta Pandey on Monday assured investors there were not many other risks in the market like the one seen recently in the event of market manipulation by US-based quant fund Jane Street. The Sebi chief also said that the Jane Street issue was more of a surveillance issue and that the regulator is in the process of upgrading now.The chairman of of the markets regulator was speaking to the media after inaugurating a new investor empowerment facility on the apps run by the t ...Read More >
Mumbai: The chairperson of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), Tuhin Kanta Pandey, has said that any form of market manipulation will not be allowed. He was speaking in Mumbai on Saturday, a day after SEBI took strict action against US-based trading firm Jane Street and three of its related companies. Stronger Watch on Illegal Trading Pandey said SEBI has increased its market surveillance to catch and stop illegal trading activities. "Market manipulation is not going to be toler ...Read More >
Mumbai, July 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) Chairperson Tuhin Kanta Pandey on Saturday said that the regulator will not tolerate market manipulation, a day after US trading entity Jane Street and three of its related entities were barred from accessing the market. The SEBI chief, speaking to the media here, said the capital markets regulator has also enhanced surveillance of such illegal practices. "Market manipulation is not going to be tolerated," he adde ...Read More >
Mumbai: Capital markets regulator Sebi chairman Tuhin Kanta Pandey on Saturday made it clear that market manipulation is not going to be tolerated. Speaking with reporters a day after an interim order against New York-based hedge fund manager Jane Street, Pandey said surveillance has been increased both by the regulator and also at the exchange level. When asked if similar patterns have been seen with other foreign portfolio investors as well, Pandey said, "All what I can say that market manip ...Read More >
MUMBAI: In his first public comments on the Jane Street scam, markets regulator Tuhin Kanta Pandey said, "Sebi will not tolerate market manipulation at any cost." It can be recalled that Sebi, in an interim order issued in the early hours of Friday, banned New York-based proprietary trading giant Jane Street. The firm had reportedly made more money from trading than two other Wall Street giants -- Citi and Bank of America -- combined in 2024, pocketing a whopping $20.5 billion, of which more th ...Read More >
MUMBAI, July 4 (Reuters) - India's markets regulator has widened its probe into alleged market manipulation by U.S. securities trading firm Jane Street to include other exchanges and indices, according to a source, after barring it from trading in the Indian markets earlier on Friday. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) barred Jane Street from buying and selling securities in the Indian market and also seized $567 of its funds. SEBI and Jane Street did not immediately respond to ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 4 (PTI) The strategy was straightforward - aggressively buy select Bank Nifty index stocks in the morning and sell them just as forcefully later in the day, triggering a sharp drop in share prices. While this often resulted in losses on the stock trades, the firm profited heavily from large parallel short positions in index options, which gained value as the market declined. US trading firm Jane Street, which started its India operations in December 2020, is said to have made Rs ...Read More >
Mumbai, July 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) In one of the biggest market manipulation cases India has witnessed in recent years, US-based trading firm Jane Street is under the scanner for allegedly using sophisticated strategies to rig Indian stock indices and pocket over Rs 43,000 crore in options profits. According to the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), Jane Street and its related entities devised an elaborate intra-day trading strategy to artificially inflate and deflate the Bank Nifty in ...Read More >
MUMBAI: India's market regulator has temporarily banned US trading firm Jane Street Group from accessing the local securities market after a probe suggested it had allegedly engaged in "illegal manipulation". A trading boom in complex financial products over the past five years - helped by an influx of millions of new retail investors after the pandemic - has made India a top market for derivatives products. The surge in trading of Indian index options contracts has seen the world's most popul ...Read More >
MUMBAI (Reuters) -India has barred one of the world's largest quant trading firms, Jane Street, from accessing its securities market after an investigation found it made "unlawful gains", taking the most stringent action ever against a foreign trading firm. The markets regulator also impounded $567 million from U.S.-based Jane Street, which said it disputed the findings. Here are facts about Jane Street and its India presence: WHAT IS JANE STREET? Jane Street has more than 3,000 staff in five ...Read More >
New Delhi: In a major crackdown, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has barred global trading giant Jane Street and its affiliates from the Indian securities market over allegations of large-scale market manipulation. In a detailed interim order dated July 3, the regulator also directed the firm to impound "unlawful gains" amounting to a staggering ₹4,843 crore ($566.71 million). Expiry-Day Manipulation Allegations SEBI's investigation revealed that Jane Street entities allegedl ...Read More >
Stocktwits - Indian markets remained rangebound at open, with the Nifty index hovering around the 25,400 level. The retail sentiment on Stocktwits for Nifty has moved to 'neutral' from 'bullish'. Nifty sentiment and message volume on July 4 as of 9:45 am IST. | source: StocktwitsSectorally, metals continued to trade under pressure, while real estate, FMCG and pharma stocks saw some buying. Trent (NSE:TREN) was the top Nifty loser, falling 8% after management at its AGM stated that its fashion ...Read More >
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