ASIC Releases Annual Assessment Report of the ASX Group Licensees

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission's ("ASIC") assessment was used to broadly understand the operational changes that the Australian Stock Exchange ("ASX") has made as a result of the transfer of market supervision to ASIC on 1 August 2010. The report sets out the following areas for attention that ASX has agreed to address: ASX’s engagement with ASIC and market participants about major and minor technical changes; improvements to ASX communications with industry and its approach to determining participant readiness; improvements in ASX’s approach to discussing and recording continuous disclosure matters with issuers and its processes around futures contract monitoring; and implementation of a new set of measures that take account of ASX’s changed role in the frontline supervision of trading. 

Originally Published: 
23/11/2011