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New titans of Wall Street — an FT series

The secretive firms that have conquered trading

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Is Chicago’s Don Wilson the smartest man in trading?
From cleaning up after Lehman Brothers to early bets on Bitcoin, DRW has become an industry colossus
Ken Griffin’s money machine: market maker Citadel Securities
The trading firm is pushing frontiers in markets once dominated by banks — but is not yet regulated like one
How Susquehanna’s Jeff Yass mastered the options game
Obsession with odds spawned a trading giant — and shaped the industry’s approach to markets
New titans of Wall Street: How trading firms stole a march on big banks
Handful of secretive businesses including Jane Street and Citadel Securities have seized market share from the old guard
New titans of Wall Street: how Jane Street rode the ETF wave to ‘obscene’ riches
A quirky and opaque New York firm has rapidly expanded to become the most profitable trader of all
‘King of the geeks’: how Alex Gerko built a British trading titan
XTX Markets conquered foreign exchange trading and made its Russian-born founder a multibillion-pound fortune