DISASTER CONFERENCE 2
January 1st, 2002
Keith NuthallONE of the more uplifting stories to emerge from the World TradeCentre disaster was the way Merrill Lynch, the world's largest stockbroker,got its people back at work and its systems running again so quicklyafterwards. Ian Ross, business continuity manager at Merrill Lynch, tolddelegates at this week's 2-day contingency planning and disaster recoveryin financial services conference in London how it happened and what waslearnt.Three Merrill Lynch employees died and 9,000 were evacuated fromfour buildings following the attack. Within seven days 8,300 ...
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