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ASX Outage Halts Company Announcements
1 Dec, 2025
Summary
- ASX experienced an outage impacting corporate announcement publications.
- The RBA recently criticized ASX's governance and risk management.
- Individual securities were halted due to sensitive announcements.
Australia's stock exchange operator, ASX, encountered a significant outage on Monday, December 1, 2025, disrupting the publication of crucial corporate announcements. This technical issue immediately raised concerns about market infrastructure resilience.
The disruption occurred shortly after the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) issued critiques concerning ASX's governance, culture, and risk-management protocols. These criticisms stemmed from a prior settlement-system malfunction in December 2024, which had already highlighted potential vulnerabilities.
In response to the ongoing publication issue, ASX stated that individual securities would be halted if price-sensitive announcements were received. The bourse operator's shares experienced a minor dip of 0.1% to A$58.16 as of 2311 GMT.
