Participants are advised that further to notice 0079.17.01 ASX has rescheduled the Business Continuity Plan (BCP) testing of the CHESS, TAS, SWIFT, RAZOR systems which supports the Equity Settlement Services to the 22 – 29 April 2017. The testing is 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 |
22/04/2017 |
24/04/2017 |
28/04/2017 |
29/04/2017 |
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.
Brendan Sweeney - Manager – Post Trade Operations
+61 (02) 9227 0000
info@asx.com.au