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While the ban is focused on a single player, many believe it may have wider effects on liquidity, trading volumes, investor confidence, and even foreign investor behaviour.

India has been a money machine for Jane Street, netting the trading giant more than $4bn in profits in just over two years. But it is now the source of a scandal that is imperilling the Wall Street firm’s golden run.