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Financial Firms Prep for Another 9/11
Major market institutions had to show that their remote data sites could
resume operations within two hours after a "wide-scale disruption" at
their home offices, according to a government report.
<http://www.cfo.com/index.cfm/l_emailauthor/6873587/c_6873692/2984987>
David M. Katz, CFO.com
May 01, 2006
Responding to government pressure in the wake of 9/11, the
Manhattan-based organizations that clear and settle the bulk of
financial transactions now have data and operations centers far from
their main sites, according to a report just issued by the Federal
Reserve, the Comptroller of the Currency, and the Securities and
Exchange Commission.
Among other best practices, the three agencies had asked the
organizations to show by the end of 2005 that they could recover from a
major disaster and resume key clearing and settlement tasks "from a
geographically remote backup site" within two hours, the agencies'
report on efforts to strengthen the resilience of the U.S. financial
system said. All but one of the key organizations had to set up
completely new data and operations sites to meet the
geographic-diversity strictures.
Not named in the report, the organizations are those that provide
clearing and settlement services for "critical financial markets" or act
as major payment-system operators "and present systemic risk should they
be unable to operate." The group, which includes government or
industry-owned market utilities and private-sector firms big enough to
trigger a threat to the entire system should they go down, had until the
end of 2005 to comply with new business-continuity guidelines.
Another group, banks or broker-dealers that have a 5 percent share in
one or more critical financial markets, has until the end of this year
to set up a number of risk-management practices. "Implementation of the
sound practices has led covered firms to make significant investments in
backup facilities, technology, and staff," according to the report. "As
a result, covered firms have increased their resilience to wide-scale
disruption, and the U.S. financial system is considerably more likely to
recover rapidly from such an event."
While the Fed, the SEC, and the comptroller didn't specify the number of
miles the backup sites had to be from core operations, they have said
the sites shouldn't rely on the same transportation, telecommunications,
water-supply, and electric-power systems.
Besides the timing and geographic-diversity dictates, the agencies
called on key financial players to routinely use or test their
arrangements for recovering and resuming operations after a "wide-scale
disruption."
The original requirements, published in April 2003, focused on
"establishing robust back-up facilities for those back-office activities
necessary to recover clearance and settlement activities for the
wholesale financial system in times of serious disruption," according to
the agencies. Thus, they don't apply to trading operations or retail
financial services.
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