David Raper and Garry Duursma join the digital asset exchange from senior roles at the ASX and Tyro Payments.

Commenting on the appointments, Caroline Bowler, CEO of BTC Markets said: “We are delighted to welcome both David and Garry to the Advisory Board.

“At BTC Markets, we have been at the forefront working with regulators to support the local cryptocurrency industry. The appointment of both these experienced gentlemen will only help us further in our mission to provide a better environment for crypto investors and businesses alike.

“Following the release of Senator Bragg’s report supporting monumental regulatory change to the Australian crypto space, David and Garry will play a vital role in guiding BTC Markets through the implementation phase.”

David has more than 25 years’ experience in the financial services industry, with the past 15 years as Executive General Manager – Trading Services, Data and Technology at the  ASX. He is a proven global leader in exchange and financial market infrastructure innovation and has worked in regulated environments throughout his career.

He joins the BTC Markets Advisory Board with an aim to bring his traditional finance experience to help BTC Markets build innovative financial infrastructure of the future in a regulated way. Previously, he held positions at J.P. Morgan, SFE Corporation and has advised on several boards such as Yieldbroker, ASX Refinitiv Charity Foundation Ltd and Mycelium.

Garry brings experience in payments innovation. He was previously Vice President Sales and Marketing at Tyro Payments Limited and Head of Market Development and Payments Innovation at Mastercard, Australia and New Zealand. He has also formerly held roles at Xinja, as well as WooliesX, Ingogo and Spotpass.

“Both David and Garry bring significant experience in delivering innovative strategies across sectors, managing risk and navigating regulatory change which will be key to our success during a historic period in the Australian cryptocurrency space,” Ms Bowler concluded.

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David Raper, ASX’s Executive General Manager Trading Services, said that the platform has significantly expanded its ASX datasets since launching last year, and now includes datasets from third parties.

“We are in positive discussions with a growing community of data partners and a number of local and global data generators,” Mr Raper said.

“We’re opening up new and unique datasets. Our growing catalogue of ASX and non-ASX datasets span fixed income, interest rate, derivatives, equities, and benchmarks. We’re already working with customers to build data products within the fixed income space. We’re also making historical versions of ASX’s market data and ReferencePoint products available.”

ASX DataSphere can be used by customers to get more value from their own data:

• Data-as-a-service – data can be organised and governed for personal use, or for analytics alongside other data in a DataSphere workspace.
• Data commercialisation – optimise data for sale or rent through DataSphere, or license it for use on products built in DataSphere, then share in the value it generates.
• Data collaboration – enhance data value by pooling it with datasets from ASX and others, for deeper insights and richer products.

The platform offers partners a choice of two workspaces. Both provide a secure, scalable platform for data exploration and product development, as well as analytical tools and curated datasets based on each customer’s requirements.

Business workspaces are designed for business users and provide the ability for users to analyse datasets through visualisations and spreadsheets. Private data can also be loaded.

Data science workspaces are designed for data scientists and developers. They provide users the ability to access popular analytical tools and programming languages, and enable users to collaborate on product development.

“The platform has been developed to be flexible and customer-centric, whilst adhering to industry leading data governance and security standards,” Mr Raper said.

“Workspaces, web-hosted dashboards and APIs can be accessed securely through the internet. This means that there are no complex integration requirements to use the platform.

“ASX selected market-leading partners including TIBCO, Cloudera, Talend and Virtustream, to bring together the infrastructure, data governance and distribution to offer a robust system using the best in class technology.

“ASX DataSphere has been developed to both power and empower customers. It does this through scalable analytics solutions that solve risk, compliance, operational efficiency and competitive advantage challenges, to provide a path to collaboration and commercialisation for partners. This also supports the digital transformation of the industry.”

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The ALC is a purpose-built, state-of the-art data centre designed to meet the demands of ASX participants and service providers for the lowest latency access to ASX execution and information services. The ALC will allow ASX to significantly extend the availability of hosting services to ASX participants, vendors and the broader financial market community.

By having its SaaS infrastructure within the ALC, FFastFill will be able to provide domestic and international trading participants with the lowest latency connection to the Australian Futures Market.

David Raper, ASX General Manager Trade Execution and Information Services, said: “ASX is pleased to welcome FFastFill into the expanding financial market community in the ALC.

The high quality SaaS technology provided by FFastFill creates business opportunities and synergies for all members of the ALC community.”

Ian Le Noury, FFastFill Director of Business Development and Customer Management Asia Pacific, said: “The ASX ALC in conjunction with FFastFill’s enhanced SaaS technology will provide superior execution for our global trading community through the low latency setup.

This setup will allow traders to reduce latency, no matter where they are located within the FFastFill global infrastructure, and enable traders to make the most of our new spreading technology, SpreadIntelligence, and FFastFill’s enhanced order release mechanisms.”

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