Former ASX CEO Dominic Stevens loses bonus share rights over CHESS disaster
The reverberations from the market operator’s failed attempt to replace its clearing and settlement system continue to play out.
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The reverberations from the market operator’s failed attempt to replace its clearing and settlement system continue to play out.
The ASX’s CHESS replacement disaster has cost shareholders $250 million, and market participants a similar amount.
The collapse of the CHESS replacement project has raised questions about ASX’s capability to manage post-trade functions in the $2.5trn equity market.
An Accenture report has found the plan to replace the CHESS settlement and clearing system with a distributed ledger was too complex and plagued with uncertainties.
Boards of ASX-listed companies should examine the multiple governance and operational failures inside the ASX relating to the $250 million CHESS software project.