NDX Trading,
Inc.’s Business Continuity Planning
Customer Disclosure
NDX Trading, Inc. 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. With that in mind, we are providing
you with this information on our business continuity plan.
Contacting
Us
If after a significant business disruption you cannot contact
us as you usually do at 612-331-8225 or info@ndxtrade.com,
you should go to our website at www.ndxtrading.com for
an alternative telephone number and/or email address. If you
cannot access us through either of those means, you should contact
our clearing firm, Southwest Securities, Inc, at 1-866-SWS-5BCP
or www.southwestsecurities.com for instructions on how the disruption
will affect your prompt access to your funds and securities.
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.
Our clearing firm, Southwest Securities, Inc.,
backs up our important records in a geographically separate
area. While every emergency situation poses unique problems based
on external factors, such as time of day and the severity of
the disruption, we have been advised by our clearing firm that
its objective is to restore its own operations and be able to
complete existing transactions and accept new transactions and
payments within 4 hours. Your orders and requests for funds and
securities could be delayed during this period.
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 sever. In a disruption to only our firm or a building
housing our firm, we will transfer our operations to a local
site when needed and expect to recover and resume business within
15 minutes. In a disruption affecting our business district,
city, or region, we will transfer our operations to a site outside
of the affected area, and recover and resume business within
4 hours. In either situation, we plan to continue in business,
transfer operations to our clearing firm if necessary, and notify
you through our website www.ndxtrading.com , by telephone, or
by email. If the significant business disruption is so severe
that it prevents us from remaining in business, we will assure
our customer’s prompt access to their funds
and securities.
For More Information
If you have questions about our business
continuity planning, you can contact us at:
Telephone: 612-331-8225
Email: info@ndxtrade.com
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