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• ASX launches developer sandbox for blockchain system

  ASX Limited — the operator of the Australian Securities Exchange — has begun offering its customers access to a development environment for its new blockchain-based replacement for CHESS.

• ASX to sell entire stake in IRESS

  ​ASX Limited, operator of the Australian Securities Exchange, is selling its entire shareholding in software company IRESS.

• ASX eyes growth from new data analytics platform offering

  ASX Limited, which operates the Australian Securities Exchange, is rolling out a data analytics platform to give its customers “access to data science and machine learning capabilities”.

• ASX makes post CHESS blockchain move

  Implementing the blockchain-inspired system is not the end game. It is just the beginning says CIO.

• ASX to spend $50m on CHESS replacement and major data centre upgrade this year

  ASX Group, operator of the Australian Securities Exchange, has outlined plans to spend $50 million on technology this year, including the blockchain-inspired replacement for CHESS and a major upgrade of one of its data centres.

• ASX confirms blockchain-inspired distributed ledger to replace CHESS

  The ASX intends to replace its decades-old Clearing House Electronic Subregister System (CHESS) with blockchain-inspired distributed ledger technology (DLT) developed by US fintech software firm Digital Asset.

• ASX ‘increasingly confident’ of blockchain-inspired tech’s potential

  ASX’s chairperson, Rick Holliday-Smith, says the company is “increasingly confident” of the potential for a system based on blockchain-inspired distributed ledger technology (DLT) to replace the Australian Securities Exchange CHESS system.

• ASX to make decision on blockchain system in December

  The operator of the Australian Securities Exchange, ASX, will complete an ​assessment of blockchain-style distributed ledger technology (DLT) as a replacement for its CHESS system by the end of the year, the company said today.

• ASX poaches CBA’s CommSec CIO

  Dan Chesterman — currently CommSec and Private Bank chief information officer at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia — has been appointed CIO at ASX.

• Boards don't get cyber security (but fear the risks), ASX health check finds

  ​The boards of many Australia’s biggest companies lack sufficient understanding of cyber security, according to the ASX Cyber Health Check Report which was published today.

• Cyber security needs voice in boardroom, says ASX tech governance chief

  The Australian Securities Exchange’s head of technology governance says enterprise cyber security teams must have a voice in the boardroom.

• ASX prepares for decision on blockchain-inspired tech

  The Australian Securities Exchange is on track for a decision in late 2017 on whether distributed ledger technology, inspired in part by Bitcoin’s blockchain, represents a suitable replacement for the ASX’s CHESS system.

• Global SIM provider United Networks debuts on ASX

  Australian telco United Networks listed on the Australian Securities Exchange today following an IPO that raised more than $7 million.

• ASX CIO Tim Thurman to return to Canada

  Australian Securities Exchange chief information officer Tim Thurman will return to Canada in early 2017, with the ASX confirming it has begun searching for a new CIO.

• Telstra signs up as ASX data centre customer

  Telstra (ASX: TLS) has signed up as a customer of the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) data centre in Sydney.