Provided by Dow Jones By Alice Uribe SYDNEY ASX Ltd., Australia s dominant securities exchange, reported lower half-year profit even as operating revenue climbed 3.4% due to a rise in listings and issuer services supported by capital raisings and elevated issuer activity. Net profit fell by 3.4% to 241.8 million Australian dollars (US$186.7 million) in the six months through December compared to the same period a year before. Operating revenue grew to A$470.5 million. As expected, the challenges arising from Covid were felt during the half and are likely to continue for at least the short term, Chief Executive Dominic Stevens said. ASX s expenses rose by 8.2%, slightly above guidance, he said.
WatersTechnology.com As ASX preps Chess replacement testing phase, other data & cloud projects progress
Testing on the new DLT-based platform will begin in July. The Aussie exchange is also making progress on its DataSphere project and has addressed ASX Trade after an outage last year, according to the company’s CEO. Print this page
As the Australian Securities Exchange closes in on the completion of its ambitious Clearing House Electronic Subregister System (Chess) replacement project, the operator is also focusing efforts on a new data delivery platform.
Although much attention has been focused on the Chess replacement project, ASX CEO Dominic Stevens said Thursday during a briefing for the exchange’s half-year results to Dec. 31, 2020 (1H21) that it is only one part of a much broader technology transformation program.
Four stars
Starring: Clare Dunne, Harriet Walter, Ian Lloyd Anderson, Ruby Rose O’Hara, Molly McCann, Conleth Hill, Daniel Ryan, Erika Roe, Dmitry Vinokurov, Mabel Chah and Aaron Lockhart
Rating: R, for profanity and vicious domestic violence
Available via: Amazon Prime
By Derrick Bang
Enterprise film critic
There’s a strong sense, throughout this superbly mounted little Irish drama, that star/co-scripter Clare Dunne writes from personal awareness.
I dearly hope that isn’t the case.
She stars as Sandra, a single mother with two young daughters, who has just escaped her possessive and abusive partner, Gary (Ian Lloyd Anderson). Although “the system” has kept a roof over their heads, bouncing them from one tiny hotel room to another, she’s barely scraping by. She works two part-time jobs, to keep them fed: as a pub barmaid and as a housekeeper for Peggy (Harriet Walter), an aging doctor for whom Sandra’s mother once worked, back in the day.
ASX Suffers from Longest Outage in A Decade, But What Does this Mean for Traders? IG
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On Monday 16 November, the Australian Stock Exchange opened for less than half an hour before software issues forced it to close for the remainder of the trading day.
Although ASX Ltd. and technology provider Nasdaq identified the cause of the problem and corrected it so that the exchange could open as planned on Tuesday 17 November, the issue still caused a great amount of embarrassment and traders were left bemused by the third halt of trading in a decade. Further embarrassment was caused by the fact that the incident occurred on a day when ASX was celebrating the debut of a new trading system. The day-long shutdown was the longest shutdown for the exchange in well over a decade.