Post by Johannes Meyer

In 2023, one options strategy earned Jane Street more than $1 billion in India. To protect it, the firm sued Millennium and two former traders in 2024. During the case, the strategy was described in open court, along with the profit figure. India's regulator took notice. By July 2025, SEBI had accused Jane Street of index manipulation and frozen about $567 million of its money in escrow. The firm that sued to keep a strategy secret ended up putting it on the record, and pulled in a regulator along the way. That enforcement paradox is the most instructive story in my new piece on the biggest lawsuits in quant finance history. Full breakdown: https://lnkd.in/dCFjjeje Autonomai Recruitment recruits on the engineering and networking side of exactly those roles across HFT and systematic shops. If you are hiring for that talent, or you are that talent, they are worth a conversation.