New titans of Wall Street: How trading firms stole a march on big banks

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Handful of secretive businesses including Jane Street and Citadel Securities have seized market share from the old guard


Joshua Franklin in New York and Costas Mourselas in London

In Manhattan, Goldman Sachs and Jane Street are separated by a street, a century, and a 160 per cent average pay gap.

Goldman and its rival investment banks were once the titans of trading. Now it is Jane Street that paid an average of over $900,000 per employee last year to Goldman’s $340,000, according to FT calculations.

The upstart, founded at the turn of the millennium, is among a handful

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