ASX Compliance Monthly Activity Report – August 2010

Transfer of Supervisory Activities to ASIC

On 1 August 2010, responsibility for the supervision of real-time trading on the ASX Group’s (ASX) licensed financial markets and for the conduct of participants on those markets transferred from ASX to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), pursuant to the Corporations Amendment (Financial Market Supervision) Act 2010. On that date, the market rules for the ASX and ASX 241 markets were effectively split into market integrity rules administered by ASIC and Operating Rules administered by ASX. Twenty-three ASX Compliance staff commenced employment with ASIC in conjunction with the transfer.

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