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.

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India has gone from being a small player in the highly speculative equity derivatives market to the world’s largest, all within just five years. Daily turnover in the market now sits at around $3 trillion.