Why did SEBI take action on Jane Street? Here's all you need to know👇
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Nine out of ten traders in the derivatives market lose money. And if you’ve ever wondered who that elusive one-in-ten winner is, chances are it’s a firm like Jane Street.
Jane Street is a US-based quantitative hedge fund famous for its low-profile, high-return approach to trading. It uses high-frequency algorithms to execute billions of rupees worth of trades in milliseconds. But now, the firm is under the scanner of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI).
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SEBI has spent the past few months combing through the firm’s derivatives footprint on India’s National Stock Exchange (NSE).
And they are tracing the last three years of trades to see if outsized options positions on Nifty-50 and Bank Nifty stocks were paired with strategic trades that could have nudged benchmark index values by a few basis points, just enough for a quick arbitrage trade.
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1/ In 2008, India's telecom ministry handed out mobile spectrum - the invisible highway for your calls and data - in a way that would go down as one of the most controversial decisions in Indian political history.
What should've been an auction... was a race to the minister's desk.
2/ Instead of open bidding, then telecom minister
A. Raja used a "first-come, first-served" policy to allocate spectrum licences.
The rates? Set at 2001 prices. In 2008. When demand - and telecom valuations - had skyrocketed.
Did Kingfisher Airline end the Good Times for Vijay Mallya? 👇🧵
1/ The promise:
In 2005, India saw the launch of an airline like no other.
Plush leather seats, in- fight entertainment, gourmet food, flight attendants handpicked from beauty pageants - Kingfisher Airlines wasn't just a carrier. It was a lifestyle.
2/ And behind it all was Vijay Mallya, the flamboyant "King of Good Times."
His pitch was simple:
If you fly Kingfisher, you don't just reach your destination - you arrive in style.
At a time when budget airlines were scaling up, Mallya promised a five-star flying experience.
The CEO of this IT major resigned after facing pressure from the founder! 👇
1/ In 2014, Infosys - the poster child of India's IT revolution - did something no one expected. It brought in an outsider. A man who wore crisp suits instead of kurtas, who spoke of Al and automation instead of billable hours. Vishal Sikka.
2/ He was everything Infosys wasn't. A Silicon Valley technocrat with a PhD in Al, who had just stepped down from SAP. He didn't come from the Infosys ranks.
He didn't come from India's IT service culture. But maybe that was the point. The board wanted disruption. And Sikka promised transformation.
India is not for beginners! After government bans bike taxis, people start booking themselves as parcels to book rides on Rapido👇🧵
1/ That's not a joke, it's Bengaluru's latest jugaad.
Since passengers aren’t technically allowed, some riders are now labeling them as “parcels” and delivering humans across the city like courier packages.
2/ Sounds absurd? Well, it is. But it also tells you how desperate the situation has become.
Because this hack didn’t come out of nowhere. It’s the result of years of confusion between bike taxi startups and the government. Private bikes can’t be used for commercial rides. But demand was high. Services grew anyway.