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.
The 2016 Business Continuity Awareness Week, which takes place from 16th to 20th May, will focus on ‘the return on investment of business continuity’.
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.
Companies must prepare in advance how to use social media in a crisis or risk making things worse, says Cindy Bodenstein…
Nearly one in ten organizations are not aware of who their key suppliers are, leaving them open to severe disruption as they are unable to manage their supply chain effectively.
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 Business Continuity Institute’s Global Awards were presented at a Gala Dinner in London on the 10th November 2015. The Awards recognise the outstanding achievements of business continuity and resilience professionals.
More than one in five retail organizations do not have a formal business continuity policy in place. That is according to a new report published by the Business Continuity Institute and supported by the Retail Business Continuity Association.
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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.
