ASX Limited operates in the Security and commodity exchanges sector. ASX Limited (ASX) is holding company for a range of licensed operating subsidiaries, which offer a range of market services linked by a common purpose: to provide financial markets services and infrastructure to meet the needs of a range of financial markets stakeholders. Its activities span primary and secondary market services, including the raising, allocation and hedging of capital flows, trading and investing, and price and volume discovery ( through Australian Securities Exchange); central counterparty risk transfer (through subsidiaries of ASX Clearing Corporation), and transaction settlement for both the equities and fixed income markets (through subsidiaries of ASX Settlement Corporation). ASX functions as a market operator, clearing house, payments system facilitator and central securities depository. ASX also oversees compliance with its operating rules, promotes standards of corporate governance among Australia's listed companies and helps to educate retail investors. In our complete report available for purchase the company is compared to: Singapore Exchange Limited, Bolsas Y Mercados and TMX Group Incorporation.