Full-Time
Data Privacy Specialist
Updated on 8/9/2026
Australian Securities Exchange
Full-service securities exchange: trading, clearing, settlement
No salary listed
Sydney NSW, Australia
Hybrid
Hybrid work in the Sydney office.
Bachelor's
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- Significant experience in data privacy gained via private practice and/or in-house privacy-focused roles.
- Strong working knowledge of the Australian Privacy Act and General Data Protection Regulation privacy regimes.
- Experience executing privacy risk assessments, impact assessments, and/or data incident response processes.
- Ability to translate complex legal, regulatory, and policy requirements into practical, business-ready guidance.
- A tertiary qualification in law, data governance, risk, compliance, information management, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.
- Candidates must be legally authorised to work in Australia on a permanent basis without restrictions.
- Provide specialist expertise and input on all data privacy matters throughout the privacy lifecycle for the ASX Group.
- Support the development, implementation, and embedment of ASX privacy policies, procedures, and operating model within the ASX Enterprise Risk Management Framework.
- Assist with embedding privacy-by-design principles into business-as-usual processes, projects, technology initiatives, and data use cases, including providing data privacy subject-matter-expert input on proposed artificial intelligence use cases.
- Support the conduct and quality assurance of Privacy Impact Assessments, including risk identification, mitigation tracking, and stakeholder engagement.
- Lead privacy incident and data breach response activities, including triage, assessment, documentation, and remediation actions.
- Contribute to uplifting and maintaining privacy obligations, risks, and controls, including ERICA alignment, evidence artefacts, and assurance readiness.
- Analyse privacy issues, incidents, and control gaps, and support remediation, uplift, and continuous-improvement initiatives.
- Educate business units and build enterprise awareness of privacy obligations and regulatory requirements in a practical, risk-based manner.
- Support internal reporting, regulatory engagement, and executive-level updates relating to data privacy risk.
- Experience supporting regulatory engagement, audits, or executive-level reporting relating to privacy or data risk.
- Experience working in or alongside Legal, Risk, Data Governance, and/or Compliance functions.
- Exposure to enterprise risk-management frameworks, control environments, or assurance processes.
- Experience supporting technology, data, or artificial-intelligence-related initiatives from a privacy-by-design perspective.
ASX is a full-service exchange in Australia offering trading, clearing, settlement, depository services, market insights, connectivity, and data across equities, derivatives, ETFs, options, and managed funds. Its platform relies on The Australian Liquidity Centre data center to provide fast, secure access to Australia’s largest liquidity pools and post-trade services. It runs a large derivatives market and combines capital markets with infrastructure to serve leading resource, finance, and technology companies. Its goal is to provide reliable, end-to-end financial infrastructure that enables efficient, liquid, and transparent markets for participants in Australia and beyond.
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What believers are saying
- Anthony Attia starts 1 September 2026, bringing Euronext derivatives and post-trade experience.
- LSEG Markets Technology will upgrade ASX 24 through 2026, improving resilience.
- ASX-Bloomberg AusBond Index Futures expand fixed-income products across Australia's bond market.
What critics are saying
- ASIC's 3 July 2026 penalty exposed deceptive CHESS disclosures and weak governance.
- December 2025 announcements outage halted about 80 companies, damaging issuer confidence.
- Another CHESS or ASX 24 failure invites RBA supervision, competition, and existential monopoly erosion.
What makes Australian Securities Exchange unique
- ASX controls 81.5% of Australian equities turnover as of December 2025.
- CHESS Release 1 went live in 2026, proving ASX can modernize core infrastructure.
- ASX 24 runs Australia and New Zealand's key interest-rate derivatives market.
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ASX fined for misleading market over CHESS tech upgrade. By Angelica Snowden The ASX has copped a $20.5m fine after misleading the market over its bungled rollout of the disastrous CHESS technology upgrade. The penalty is not a surprise, after the exchange operator conceded in June it deceived the market when it published an update in February 2022 that the project was "progressing well" and an April 2023 go-live date was on track. In reality, the ASX conceded in March the project would be delayed and by November had all but publicly called it off, having announced a "pause" to its development. The ASX took an 11th hour deal to avoid a court trial, which was due to kick off in June. The ASX also agreed to pay legal costs worth $3m to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, who brought the case. An agreement was reached two weeks after former chief executive Helen Lofthouse quit the market operator, with her replacement European financial markets executive Anthony Attia, due to start in September. The ASX first announced it had selected Digital Asset Holdings to design a potential replacement using technologies that record transactions across decentralised networks, like blockchain, 10 years ago in 2016. Rooz let off the hook. New York-based Digital Assets' CEO Yuval Rooz was let off the hook before the case was settled, after the ASX lost a bid to force him to come to Australia to give evidence in the trial. According to Federal Court judge Brigitte Markovic's judgment, former ASX CEO Dominic Stevens signed off on an ASX announcement about his resignation, that was updated on the evening of February 9 to include a line claiming the CHESS project was "progressing well". "Looks good," Stevens replied when he ticked off on the February 10 announcement. Former ASX chair Damian Roche, who retired amid the project's fallout, was also emailed a copy. But earlier, the ASX audit and risk committee had been told about the project's major lack of progress on February 3, 2022. As well, the board was told on February 9 about the project's "red" status, and was supplied with a report from Stevens that also flagged delays. "The [CHESS Replacement Project] continues to focus on finding solutions to Digital Asset's delivery road map not being aligned with the critical path activities," Stevens told the board in his report. "Management is engaged at various levels within Digital Asset to protect the critical path." Despite that information, the board determined it was "accurate to say that the project remained on track". "More recently, in discussion with ASX's CEO and Group Executive, Securities & Payments, Digital Asset's CEO had verbally committed to a mid-March to early April delivery for ITE2," minutes from a board meeting on February 9 said. "On the basis of that commitment, management considered that the project remained on critical path, and that it was accurate to say that the project remained 'on track'." The ASX announcement was considered and approved by the board at that meeting. Earlier, in December 2021, the ASX rejected a proposal from Rooz's company to push back the CHESS delivery until November 2022. A red rating. The project was given a "red" rating at that time out of a traffic light system, in reports to the ASX board and governance group, Justice Markovic said. "'Red was defined as 'heightened awareness or action required', 'confirmed issue with adverse impact', 'significant issues or risks impacting [key performance indicator(s)] where mitigations/resolutions are not in place or have not been effective' and 'ESG/[Project Director] has concerns there is a material threat to project outcomes'," the judgment read. ASX chair Roche met with Digit Assets chair Susan Hauser, in addition to multiple other meetings between the parties from December 2021 and February 2022 to get the project back on track. The judgment noted an original "go-live" date was planned for April 2021, but was delayed during the Covid-19 pandemic and pushed out to April 2023. Justice Markovic said the ASX was "concerned" about delays afflicting the project by no-later than mid-November 2021. The delays were a result of Digital Asset Holding's failure to prioritise the CHESS project or assign it sufficient resources, according to Justice Markovic's judgment. For years leading up to 2022, the ASX sought to replace CHESS - Australia's predominant clearing and settlement system. The ASX first announced it had selected Digital Asset Holdings to design a potential replacement using technologies that record transactions across decentralised networks, like blockchain, in 2016.
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Euronext global head of derivatives and post-trade to depart for chief executive role at Australian Securities Exchange. Individual is set to step into new role on 1 September 2026; Euronext chief executive, Stéphane Boujnah, has confirmed that transition arrangements are underway, The TRADE understands. Anthony Attia is set to join the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) as managing director and chief executive, after a 12-year tenure at Euronext. As part of the move - effective 1 September 2026 - Attia will relocate from Paris to Sydney, bringing almost three decades of international exchange experience spanning primary markets to post-trade services to his new position. According to David Clarke, chair of ASX, Attia's appointment followed a comprehensive global search process for the position. Attia initially joined Euronext in 2000 based in Paris, before later rejoining as chief executive of Euronext Paris and global head of listing and post-trade in 2014. Most recently he served as global head of derivatives and post-trade at the exchange, which he will continue in until his transition to ASX. "I am delighted to join ASX at a pivotal moment in its transformation," said Attia. "There is so much potential, and I'm excited to meet everyone at ASX and to engage directly with key stakeholders in Australia's markets ecosystem. I look forward to working with the ASX Boards and the executive leadership team to further strengthen ASX's role as a steward of critical market infrastructure and to position us as a leading capital markets hub in the Asia Pacific region." During his time at Euronext, Attia supported the firm's pan-European build-out and also oversaw the development of the firm's proprietary trading platform, Optiq, as well as the expansion of Euronext Clearing. Prior to this, he also spent a year at ICE as a senior vice president, as well as five years at NYSE in various roles, notably as chief of staff to the president and deputy chief executive. "Anthony Attia has been a key contributor to the development of Euronext [...] I am very proud that the expertise he has built in the collective success of Euronext allow him to become the chief executive of ASX," added Stéphane Boujnah, chief executive of Euronext. "This is a very important and consistent move for him, both professionally and personally. I want to thank Anthony for his contribution to Euronext and to wish him the best for this new step in his career. The Euronext management is working on smooth transition arrangements." The TRADE > News > Asset Classes > Derivatives > CME Group brings AVAX and SUI futures to market as trading goes live CME Group brings AVAX and SUI futures to market as trading goes live. The initial trade was executed between FalconX and G-20 Group, and beginning 29 May, the contracts will be available for 24/7 trading. CME Group's newly expanded cryptocurrency futures and options suite, spanning Avalanche (AVAX) and SUI futures has gone live for trading. Through the launch, the new contracts will be available for trading on a 24/7 basis, operational from 29 May. In addition, the first trades of the expanded cryptocurrency suite were executed as blocks between crypto prime broker FalconX and cross-asset trading firm G-20 Group. "The early support we've seen for our AVAX and SUI futures contracts signals that clients are actively seeking regulated products to manage price risk and pursue new opportunities across a wider range of crypto instruments," said Giovanni Vicioso, global head of cryptocurrency products at CME Group. "By offering these futures in both micro- and larger-sized contracts, we're giving market participants the flexibility and capital efficiencies they need to execute their cryptocurrency investment and hedging strategies with greater precision." Specifically, the contracts span AVAX futures (5,000 AVAX), micro AVAX futures (500 AVAX), SUI futures (50,000 SUI) and micro SUI futures (5,000 SUI). "Two major trends we see are the growth of broader altcoin indices for crypto exposure and digital asset Treasuries' accumulation of assets like AVAX and SUI on behalf of shareholders," said Joshua Lim, global co-head of markets, FalconX. "These new CME Group futures markets are addressing real market demand for hedging and leverage on a wider array of underlying crypto assets." The launch also marks a build out of CME Group's existing cryptocurrency derivatives suite, which include Cardano, Chainlink and Stellar futures contracts, launched in February 2026. The firm offering also spans futures and options linked to Bitcoin, Ether, XRP and Solana.
Australia's stock exchange has warned companies against overstating AI's impact on their business, with Chief Compliance Officer Lucinda McCann saying ASX is monitoring for "ramping" — claims designed to inflate share prices without factual support. The exchange has seen few such cases to date. At the same event, Australia's corporate regulator ASIC urged firms to prepare for cyber and other risks from frontier AI models. Regulatory action would focus on inadequate preparation rather than individual incidents. The warning follows Anthropic's introduction of Claude Mythos, a frontier AI model that can reportedly find software vulnerabilities and execute complex cyber operations with minimal human input. Australia's prudential regulator APRA is working across the financial sector to address cyber threats from such high-capability models, warning it may increase supervision when firms fail to manage AI risks properly.
TCS, ASX go-live with CHESS Release 1 for cash clearing. Tata Consultancy Services and the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) have successfully gone live with CHESS Release 1, marking a key milestone in the modernisation of Australia's post-trade clearing and settlement infrastructure. Clearing House Electronic Subregister System (CHESS) is used to facilitate clearing and settlement of trades in eligible financial products. It supports transfer of legal title through the CHESS sub-register and enables delivery-versus-payment settlement by transferring securities and cash between buyers and sellers. Release 1 of the CHESS replacement program delivers the new clearing component. As part of the project, TCS implemented its TCS BaNCS for Market Infrastructure and Quartz Gateway solutions. The deployment provides ASX with a modern cloud-based clearing solution designed to be high-performance, scalable and resilient across multiple asset classes. The platform supports real-time trade novation and netting, complies with industry standards, and enables connectivity with multiple Australian exchanges. It also supports ISO 15022, ISO 20022 and FIX messaging standards. TCS said the system has been benchmarked to process more than 20 million trades per day, supporting ASX's future growth with improved resilience and scalability. Tim Whiteley, Chief Information Officer, ASX, said, "Release 1 of the CHESS Project marks a significant milestone in the modernisation of Australia's critical market infrastructure supporting post-trade clearing and settlement services." He added that the successful deployment has enabled ASX to progress toward Release 2, targeted for go-live in 2029. R Vivekanand, President BFSI Products and Platforms, TCS, said, "We are proud to have partnered with ASX on their modernization strategy and the successful Go-Live of CHESS Release-1." ASX is implementing the CHESS Replacement Project in two stages to reduce risk and manage change. Following the completion of Release 1, TCS, ASX and industry participants have commenced work on Release 2. 29 Apr 2026 Event focuses on green growth and climate-resilient cities. The Confederation of Indian Industry - Indian Green Building Council (CII IGBC) organised the Madhya Pradesh Sustainability Conclave in Indore, centred on green growth, climate resilience and responsible urban development. Held at the Marriott Hotel, the conclave brought together policymakers, industry leaders, planners and sustainability experts to discuss strategies for accelerating green building adoption and sustainable urbanisation across the state. Madhya Pradesh has built a green footprint of more than 510 million sq ft with over 549 IGBC-registered projects across commercial, re... 29 Apr 2026 Energy savings and emissions cuts drive customer returns. Johnson Controls has released its 2026 Sustainability Report, highlighting progress in energy efficiency, decarbonisation and customer cost savings across mission-critical industries such as healthcare, advanced manufacturing and higher education.The company said its technologies helped customers save more than $9.5 billion in energy and operating costs while avoiding emissions equivalent to nearly six million US homes. These savings are enabling organisations to redirect capital towards growth priorities, capacity expansion and workforce development.Johnson Controls reported a 46 per cent red... 29 Apr 2026 Firm signs Rs 5 billion Malviya Nagar development deal. Sā - The House of Shubhashish has entered Jaipur's luxury housing segment after signing a development agreement for a premium residential project in Malviya Nagar.The project has an estimated revenue potential of around Rs 5 billion and is expected to be launched in Q3 of the current financial year, subject to regulatory approvals.The company said the development marks its formal entry into the premium and luxury residential segment in Jaipur, in line with its broader expansion strategy across key urban markets.Sā - The House of Shubhashish is part of JK Jajoo Ventures, which has inter...