Business Continuity Plan: Read
BGC Americas Divisions
BGC has developed a Business Continuity Plan on how we will respond to events that significantly disrupt our business. Since the timing and impact of disasters and disruptions is unpredictable, we will have to be flexible in responding to actual events as they occur.
Contacting Us
If during a significant business disruption you cannot contact a BGC office in either North, Central or South America, please contact either:
For BGC Liquidez Brazil, the above contact information can be used if both the Sao Paulo and Rio offices are unavailable:
For more information
If you have questions about our business continuity planning, you can contact us at:
Our Business Continuity Plan
We plan to quickly recover and resume business operations after a significant business disruption and respond by safeguarding our employees and property, making a financial and operational assessment, protecting the firm’s books and records, and allowing our customers to transact business. In short, our business continuity plan is designed to permit our firm to resume operations as quickly as possible, given the scope and severity of the significant business disruption.
Our business continuity plan addresses: data back up and recovery; all mission critical systems; financial and operational assessments; alternative communications with customers, employees, and regulators; alternate physical location of employees; critical supplier, contractor, bank and counter-party impact; regulatory reporting; and assuring our customers prompt access to their funds and securities if we are unable to continue our business.
Varying Disruptions
Significant business disruptions can vary in their scope, such as only our firm, a single building housing our firm, the business district where our firm is located, the city where we are located, or the whole region. Within each of these areas, the severity of the disruption can also vary from minimal to severe. During a business disruption, we plan to continue business, transfer operations to our branch network, and notify you through our web sites bgcpartners.com, cantor.com and bgcliquidez.com on how to contact us.