Business continuity news 27th April 2004

news headlines: 27th April 2004

Synstar opens Luxembourg business recovery centre
Facility offers 250 seats, providing office, IT and communication facilities, sizeable work space and a 750 sq.metre secured computer room.
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•Date: 27th April 2004 •Region: W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Recovery facilities
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NASDAQ reports that it has successfully completed market-wide disaster recovery tests
Approximately 50 market participants took part.
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•Date: 27th April 2004 •Region: N.America •Type: Article •Topic: Financial sector
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WHO team travels to China to investigate SARS outbreak
Eight people have been clinically diagnosed as SARS cases or are under investigation for possible SARS infection.
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•Date: 27th April 2004 •Region: SE Asia •Type: Article •Topic: SARS
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Federal Reserve Board seeks comments on proposed revisions to Payments System Risk policy
The proposed revisions update the policy in light of new international risk management standards for payments and securities settlement systems.
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•Date: 27th April 2004 •Region: N.America•Type: Article •Topic: Financial sector
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Self-regulatory US organisations complete business continuity rule making
SEC Approves NASD and NYSE business continuity rules.
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•Date: 27th April 2004 •Region: N.America•Type: Article •Topic: Financial sector
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Increasing dependency on external service providers becoming a continuity issue: Gartner
Relationship management must take centre stage as businesses become dependent on complex outsourcing relationships.
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•Date: 27th April 2004 •Region: UK/Europe •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Evergreen introduces online ‘Email Restoral’ service
Evergreen 911 provides instant e-mail access for users of Microsoft Exchange 2003 in the event that their primary system is unavailable for any reason.
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•Date: 27th April 2004 •Region: N.America •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Top headlines from the past four weeks:
• Emergency notification methods: what are the risks? Go

• Building a continuity culture: the importance of measuring attitudes to risk Go

• Banks may benefit from delaying advanced compliance to Basel Go

• Risk management must be a board issue: Lloyd’s chairman Go

• Taking business continuity training and education forward Go

• IBM introduces ‘world's fastest global business continuity technology’ Go

• ICM doubles its City of London business recovery capacity Go

• Business continuity training is generally inadequate Go

• Business resilience – the next step forward for business continuity Go

• Business Continuity Institute advertises for senior executive Go

• 55 percent of industrial companies addressing supply chain contingency planning issues Go

• IBM acquires Schlumberger Business Continuity Services unit Go

• SIA publishes updated information on ‘Unexpected Market Close’ procedures and implications Go

• Dependency unlimited Go

• BCI outlines its succession plan Go

• Secretariat issues Civil Contingencies Bill update Go

• Business continuity training survey Go

• From disappearing boundaries to security governance Go

• Checklist: protecting employees on new overseas assignments Go

• Further lessons from Manchester Go

• Classic Blue opens Adelaide business recovery centre Go

• Manchester incident displays telecoms dependencies Go