The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), the securities industry regulator for Australia, is taking exchange operator the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) to court over allegations that ASX officials made “misleading statements related to its Clearing House Electronic Subregister System (CHESS) replacement project.” The case was filed in the Federal Court of Australia on Aug…. Read More >>
FinTech Brief: TCS Platform to Replace ASX’s CHESS
The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has selected Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to provide a clearing and settlement platform for the Australian market based upon TCS BaNCS for Market Infrastructure that will replace ASX’s incumbent CHESS system. The TCS BaNCS for Market Infrastructure has been designed for central securities depositories (CSDs), central counterparty clearinghouses (CCPs), exchanges,… Read More >>
ASX & ASIC Explore a Second CHESS Replacement Effort
Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) and Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) officials are launching the process to start a second major effort to replace the legacy Clearing House Electronic Subregister System or CHESS platform. This effort follows a major blockchain-based project that was slated to replace CHESS but was halted in November 2022 after multiple… Read More >>
ASX May Delay CHESS Replacement Launch Again
A key Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) executive has announced another likely delay in the launch of the blockchain-based infrastructure that will replace the legacy Clearing House Electronic Subregister System (CHESS) due to new requirements for the core software of the platform to come. The ambitious. cutting-edge operations platform for securities transactions was slated to go… Read More >>
Is DLT Finally Ready for Prime Time?
When the bragging goes quiet on Wall Street, you know the serious talk has begun. This has been the case with blockchain/distributed ledger technology (DLT). The hype evaporated pretty fast when the securities industry began to seriously test the glibly christened savior of disruptive technologies. Banks, exchanges, hedge funds, vendors, and everything else in between… Read More >>
ASX Identifies the Causes for its 2020 Outage
The equity market of the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) suffered an outage last November following the implementation of a new version of the Nasdaq equity market trading system. Shortly thereafter, ASX officials commissioned an independent review to provide an explanation for trading interruption. Released last week, the preliminary results of the review indicate the updated… Read More >>
BAE Systems & Kharon Target Sanctions Screening
BAE Clients Get Access to Kharon’s Analytics Anti-money laundering (AML) solutions provider BAE Systems Applied Intelligence is partnering with Kharon, a research and data analytics vendor to offer BAE customers Kharon’s data and analytics to improve sanctions screening and bolster investigations, officials say. The partnership will enable BAE Systems compliance solution NetReveal to access Kharon… Read More >>
Westpac Could Pay $87M in Corporate Actions Remediation
Australia’s Westpac Banking Corp. has agreed to spend as much as $87 million in remediation for past corporate actions notification problems that may have caused clients to miss out on actionable information, confirm bank officials and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). Westpac officials initially reported to ASIC in July 2019 that there may… Read More >>
ASX Resets CHESS Replacement Launch to 2023
ASX Stakeholders Ask for More Time The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) reports that it has set April 2023 as the new launch date for its blockchain-based replacement for the incumbent Clearing House Electronic Subregister System (CHESS), citing the need for more time to refine the platform to come. The new launch date follows a tentative… Read More >>
Blockchain Successor to CHESS to Launch in 2022
Pandemic Delays Launch of New ASX System The Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) has set its new go-live date of April 2022 for the blockchain-based system that will replace its incumbent clearing and settlement, the Clearing House Electronic Subregister System (CHESS), officials say. The new launch date is 12 months beyond the original launch date, which… Read More >>
