Monday April 30 2018

News Source: Global Exchanges

Focus: General - Global Exchanges

Type: General




On 28th April 2018, TMX Group announced that technical issues had disrupted trading on the following Markets:

  • Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX),
  • TSX Venture Exchange (TSXV),
  • TSX Alpha Exchange (TSX Alpha)
  • Montreal Exchange (MX)

The outage,  began at 1:37:25 pm EDT Friday on MX and 1:39:13 pm EDT on TSX, TSXV, and TSX Alpha. The outage was caused by a hardware failure in a central storage appliance of the trading system. This hardware failure impacted both the primary and the redundant components preventing storage failover procedures from engaging. TMX  has confirmed that this incident was not the result of a cybersecurity attack.

TMX confirmed that all systems the issue has been resolved and that the systems will function as normal for the start of business on 30th  April , 2018.

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