The BSI Supply Chain Security Risk Index shows that European trade has been impacted by serious border delays caused by the migration crisis. Essential shipments of goods and medical supplies are being delayed and destroyed as a result, costing a collective $1Bn to the UK economy in the last year alone.
As organizations review their business continuity and crisis management plans following the Paris attacks, Peter Power highlights some useful advice for protecting employees caught up in future incidents.
FINRA, the US Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, has filed a rule with the Securities and Exchange Commission to enable it to require firms to participate in FINRA’s business continuity and disaster recovery testing.
With the aim of raising standards of governance and administration in defined contribution (DC) schemes, the UK Pensions Regulator has publishing a draft revised code of practice for consultation.
Following the recent 2015 APEC Ministerial Meeting in Manila, a joint statement was issued that covered, amongst other things, business continuity and disaster risk reduction.
Mark Armour and David Lindstedt recently proposed Continuity 2.0, a manifesto detailing how current approaches to business continuity planning might evolve. In this article Mark looks at how Continuity 2.0 might be applied in practice.
The US SBA’s latest business continuity webinar will focus on the top ten most common mistakes business owners make when dealing with a crisis.
In a circular published on November 16th 2015, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has informed India’s national commodity derivatives exchanges that they must have robust business continuity and disaster recovery plans in place.
Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have discovered a new bat SARS-like virus that can jump directly from its bat hosts to humans without mutation.
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Business continuity can be defined as 'the processes, procedures, decisions and activities to ensure that an organization can continue to function through an operational interruption'. Read more about the basics of business continuity here.
