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US-based hedge fund Jane Street has asked the Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) to direct the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) to share the trading records behind its market manipulation allegations. At Monday's hearing, Jane Street’s lawyer said that Sebi should hand over the trading records used to accuse the firm of manipulating index prices and then profiting from options trading. “Who is the counterparty? Are they independent people? Were the counterparty orders existing at the time I placed my orders? For example, if there was a whole slew of counterparties who had placed sale orders and I then picked them up, can I be accused of aggressively buying the push of the money?” said the firm’s lawyer during the hearing. “Say it is shown in a given case that I purchased in a certain period 15% of the purchases of that period. But there is another party in the form of a group, which, through some 10 companies, did 2% each. And actually, as a group bought 20%. Can they tell me we will not give you that information?” he added. The request comes as Jane Street challenges Sebi’s July 2025 ex parte interim order, which barred the hedge fund from the Indian securities market and directed it to disgorge ₹4,843 crore in alleged unlawful gains. Sebi accused the firm of using trades in Bank Nifty constituents in the cash and futures markets to artificially support the index while building short positions in index options. Jane Street’s lawyer argued that the regulator’s allegations could not be properly tested without access to the underlying trading data, including information about counterparties, timing, quantum and prices. On 4 September, Jane Street’s lawyer sought access to correspondence between Sebi and the National Stock Exchange (NSE) relating to a study by the exchange on the firm’s trades. Two earlier reviews conducted in 2024 by NSE and Sebi’s Integrated Surveillance Department (ISD) found no evidence that its trades influenced index prices to benefit its options positions. The firm said the NSE study covered 16 months of the 27-month period examined in Sebi’s July 2025 order, while the ISD study covered 17 months. It also referred to a complaint from a UAE-based hedge fund that allegedly prompted Sebi to form an interdepartmental team in December 2024 to examine similar trades. The matter will be next heard on Tuesday. Apoorva is a Mumbai-based journalist at Mint who covers the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), tracking the pulse of India’s capital markets, regulatory developments and the people who operate within them. She holds a postgraduate diploma in business and financial journalism from the Asian College of Journalism, where she developed a strong foundation in markets, companies, and economic policy. She began her journalism journey with an internship at Bloomberg, where she worked across beats such as real estate, infrastructure, capital markets, and deals, which helped her understanding of business and finance.<br><br>She is guided by the belief that everything in this world can be explained in simple and fewer words, and that idea shapes how she approaches her writing. She aims to cut through complexity and present nuanced regulatory and financial developments in a way that is both accessible and meaningful to readers.<br><br>When she is not tracking market chatter, Apoorva can usually be found deep into a fiction novel or out on a long run. She is also a trained classical dancer in Bharatanatyam, Mohiniyattam, and Kathakali. Catch all the Business News , Market News , Breaking News Events and Latest News Updates on Live Mint. Download The Mint News App to get Daily Market Updates. Oops! Looks like you have exceeded the limit to bookmark the image. Remove some to bookmark this image.
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