Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) - Announcements, Interviews & News Stories

Sydney Futures chief Robert Elstone to head merged ASX/SFE group

Australian Stock Exchange Limited (ASX) and SFE Corporation Limited (SFE) today announced that the merger proposal to be considered by shareholders of SFE on 5 July 2006 will be modified to reflect the decision of the ASX Board to appoint Robert Elstone as CEO of the merged group, if the merger is approved.

14 June 2006

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Aussie federal treasurer approves ASX and SFE merger

Australian Stock Exchange Limited (ASX) and SFE Corporation Limited (SFE) welcome today's announcement by the Federal Treasurer that he has approved ASX's application to have 100% of the voting power in SFE and its subsidiaries.

06 June 2006

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ASX/SFE merger gets greenlight from Australian competition watchdog

Australian Stock Exchange Limited (ASX) and SFE Corporation Limited (SFE) welcome today’s announcement by the Australian Consumer and Competition Commission (Commission) that ASX's proposed merger with SFE does not raise any competition concerns.

24 May 2006

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ADP Wilco releases ITS Adapter for ASX connectivity

Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (NYSE: ADP) subsidiary ADP Wilco has released its new ITS Adapter to customers in Australia.

23 May 2006

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Australian Stock Exchange to buy Sydney Futures Exchange for A$2.5bn

Australian Stock Exchange Limited (ASX) and SFE Corporation Limited (SFE) today announced an agreed proposal to merge their businesses and create the leading financial markets exchange in the Asia-Pacific region.

27 March 2006

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ASX to introduce FIX-based market data services

The Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) will introduce low-latency market data services in 2006, based on the FIX (financial information exchange) protocol.

24 February 2006

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ASX selects Tepin's Ki Trade Validation for FIX testing

Tepin Information announced today that ASX has selected Tepin's Ki Trade Validation to automate its FIX testing process.

27 September 2005

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ASX and Perpetual complete registry business sale

Australian Stock Exchange Limited (ASX) and its joint venture partner in ASX Perpetual Registrars Limited (APRL), Perpetual Trustees Australia Limited (Perpetual), today announced that the sale of the registry business had been completed.

02 September 2005

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ASX upgrades to OM's Click XT platform

The Australian Stock Exchange Limited (ASX) and OM Technology AB (OM) today signed a ten year agreement for the use of CLICK XT as the integrated trading platform for ASX's equity, derivatives and fixed income products. This deal will result in ASX becoming the first top-10 market to offer a fully integrated platform for the trading of all its listed securities. The project involves migration of ASX's equity, warrants and fixed interest products from their existing SEATS platform onto CLICK XT.

30 June 2004

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