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Notice
Participants are advised that ASX will be conducting Business Continuity Plan (BCP) testing of the CHESS, TAS, SWIFT, RAZOR systems which supports the Equity Settlement Services on 15 – 22 April 2017 to satisfy regulatory and audit requirements.
Below are the impacted services and associated key dates.
Service Area |
Configuration Date |
Business Start Date |
Business Finish Date |
Cutback Date |
CHESS, TAS, SWIFT, RAZOR |
15/04/2017 |
17/04/2017 |
21/04/2017 |
22/04/2017 |
What do I need to do by when?
Please note the following regarding the test:
- Participant procedures and access methods are not changed as a result of the BCP test;
- Participants are not required to perform any configurations for the BCP test;
- ASX will be validating access to each system as part of the failover process, Participant validation is not required;
- ASX is running each key system in reverse configuration, meaning that full system redundancy is available for the duration of the BCP test;
- All Equities Settlement Services BCP systems are full replica environments, meaning there will be no service degradation as a result of the BCP test; and
- ASX is not failing over any aspect of the network access infrastructure solution.
Customer Technical Support will be available from 08:00 to 18:00 Monday - Friday for technical issue escalation.
Need more information?
Issued by
Brendan Sweeney - Manager – Post Trade Operations
Contact information
Customer Technical Support
+61 (02) 9227 0000
info@asx.com.au