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Industry Wide Banking Disaster Recovery (Excercise)

On Saturday, October 24, 2009, from 3:00 p.m. ET until 7:00 a.m. ET Sunday, October 25, 2009, Wells Fargo Investments, LLC (which includes Wachovia) will participate in an industry-wide disaster recovery exercise which may result in the brokerage website being unavailable for all or part of the event. Please contact us to place transactions if you are unable to access your account online during this exercise. We apologize for any inconvenience and we thank you for your patience.


CLEARING CORPORATION
VOLUME 29 – BULLETIN #072

TO: ALL CLEARING PARTICIPANTS

FROM: CLIENT SERVICES AND SUPPORT

DATE: September 9, 2009

SUBJECT: 2009 FIA Industry-Wide Disaster Recovery Test / CCorp Preliminary DR Test

In our continuing effort to provide seamless trade processing capability to our clearing participants in the event of a disaster, The Clearing Corporation (CCorp) is pleased to announce its participation in the FIA Industry-Wide Disaster Recovery test scheduled for Saturday, October 24, 2009.

As part of the industry-wide test, CCorp will provide the following clearing services from its disaster recovery site, beginning at 8:00AM Chicago time and continuing through 2:00PM to help firms test their preparedness in the event that CCorp needs to relocate to its DR site.

ETS Trade Confirmations

Participants will have the ability to test receiving ETS trade confirmations from CCorp’s Disaster Recovery (DR) site via MQM or through use of the file transfer via the Internet process. To replicate trading, CCorp will send four scripted transactions to each firm which has requested to receive confirmations messages.

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http://www.clearingcorp.com/bulletins/2 ... 9-072.html


From TD Ameritrade:
"Systems maintenance scheduled for Sunday, October 25
Our systems will be unavailable from 12 a.m. to 2 a.m. ET on October 25 while we perform maintenance updates to ensure continued high-level service for our clients. To speak with a Client Services representative during this time, please call 800-669-3900. We apologize for this necessary interruption"
http://www.tdameritrade.com/welcome1.html


BARCLAY'S
Online Banking maintenance

We'll be carrying out routine maintenance in Online Banking on Sunday 25 October between 01:45 BST and 02:15 GMT you will not be able to log in during this time. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

Message updated 23 October 2009.
https://ibank.barclays.co.uk/olb/o/LoginMember.do


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Check out GLP and some of the stock market forums for more on this.

Just a thought - is it a coincidence that Obama declared a National Emergency during the same weekend as this bank recovery exercise? (BTW, I don't believe in coincidences.)