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IndustryWeek October 1, 2006 Doug Bartholomew	Plan for Worst-Case Scenarios Should the avian flu pandemic occur, the U.S. government has created basic guidelines to help companies continue operations.
Bank Systems & Technology June 13, 2007 Nancy Feig	Avian Flu: Are Banks' IT Systems Ready? The U.S. financial services industry will test its ability to respond to an avian flu pandemic with an exercise to begin in late September that will be sponsored by the U.S. Treasury Department.
Bank Technology News December 2007	Resiliency: Broadband Needs to Get Much Broader Much of banks' contingency plans rely on their ability to get work completed remotely. While a simultaneous drop in the communications and electric workforces may affect banks, the real concern is the availability of bandwidth.
Wall Street & Technology October 20, 2006	Crisis Plans Undercut U.S. companies have upgraded their infrastructures to ensure functionality in the event of a pandemic, but few are willing to increase IT budgets to cover the additional expenses, according to a survey.
Wall Street & Technology December 17, 2007 Melanie Rodier	Financial Industry's Pandemic Exercise Gets Mixed Results To see how well prepared the U.S. financial industry is for a pandemic, 2,775 U.S. financial firms recently took part in a drill conducted by the U.S. Treasury, SIFMA and the Financial and Banking Information Infrastructure Committee.
National Real Estate Investor June 1, 2006 Parke M. Chapman	Crisis Management Building owners and managers have another reason to dust off their emergency preparedness plans -- the growing threat of avian flu.
BusinessWeek November 28, 2005 John Carey	Avian Flu: Business Thinks The Unthinkable Experts say most companies don't yet realize how serious the economic effects of a pandemic could be. But some executives are starting to confront the real chance of panicked workers, supply disruptions, and economic upheaval.
Bank Systems & Technology December 1, 2005 Katherine Burger	Calling in Sick There may be a kind of disaster looming that even the most recovery-savvy businesses have not anticipated -- a major flu outbreak. The implications regarding business continuity plans are as serious as a looming hurricane.
Bank Systems & Technology April 28, 2009 Maria Bruno-Britz	No Swine Flu Emergency Yet, but Banks Should Keep Eyes Open Although it's not yet time to push the panic button, it is still important for banks to monitor something like the spread of swine flu closely and to take stock of their disaster recovery plans.
InternetNews December 22, 2005 David Needle	Most Companies Ill Prepared for Pandemic A new Basex report says that most large companies don't have the right policies to handle extended absenteeism and other pandemic related issues.
The Motley Fool September 15, 2008 Alex Dumortier	Why Lehman's Bankruptcy Matters How will Lehman's bankruptcy affect more than just a handful of bankers and traders who work in the world's financial capitals? More importantly, how will it affect you?
CIO September 1, 2002 Sarah D. Scalet	Staying Power In the weeks and months after 9/11, three CIOs working next door to the World Trade Center found they had to be strong leaders to get their multinational financial companies back online. Now back in the city, they don't make business continuity plans. They live them.
Investment Advisor September 2006 Dave Kieffer	IA Soapbox: Are You in Pandemic Denial? Under a severe flu scenario, the global just-in-time economy will buckle. Most financial advisors will want their clients to sit this out. But you might have only a day, more likely hours, to attend to your clients' interests.
Managed Care July 2006 Ed Silverman	Managed Care Prepares For the Worst To cope with the possibility of an avian flu pandemic, health plans are devising ways to function even when their providers are being overrun and the insurers themselves face a vastly depleted workforce.
Wall Street & Technology March 22, 2005 Anthony Guerra	Two Worlds Come Together Firms believed that they might be able to disband their voice networks and move that traffic to their IP infrastructure. But, as with most new technology, there have been unforeseen bends in the VoIP road - both for better and for worse.
The Motley Fool July 18, 2008 Dan Caplinger	Fool Poll: More Bad News for Lehman We asked who'd be the next Bear Stearns. You responded.
Scientific American November 2005	Preparing for the Worst Flu season comes every year as reliably as hurricane season. If America shores up our defenses against both, we will be in a much stronger position when the "big ones" hit.
Entrepreneur August 2006 Chris Penttila	The Hot Zone Prepare your business for the outbreak of bird flu or any other possible pandemic before you're really in trouble.
The Motley Fool June 14, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	Profiting From Active Trading Bond trading continues to pay off for Lehman Brothers. Factor in a solid backlog of business, and the company should do all right so long as we don't see any major unexpected volatility in the capital markets.
CFO December 1, 2007 Karen M. Kroll	Flu Diligence New software programs help companies gauge the potential business impact of a pandemic. FluWorkLoss... Infectious Disease Modeling... etc.
The Motley Fool August 18, 2008 Alex Dumortier	Lehman's $40 Billion Garage Sale According to a Financial Times report, the troubled broker-dealer is in talks to sell $40 billion in mortgage and real estate assets.
Wall Street & Technology September 23, 2005 Paul Allen	BCP: Expect the Unexpected Whatever strategy organizations employ, it is clear that business continuity planning will require a long-term commitment. The London bombings may not lead to a material change in regulatory policies or institutions' internal plans, but they already have turned up the pressure for financial services firms to get their plans in order.
Investment Advisor May 2006 Ryan G. Murphy	Catching up with... An interview with Milton Ezrati, senior economic and marketing strategist with Lord Abbet on the possible avian flu pandemic's role in the financial world.
The Motley Fool December 14, 2006 Michael Mancini	Lehman: Size Doesn't Matter In what is shaping up to be a record year for most securities firms, Lehman Brothers today announced its fourth-quarter and 2006 full-year results to less fanfare than its investment-banking brethren had earned.
The Motley Fool October 8, 2009 Jennifer Schonberger	We Haven't Learned Lehman's Lesson Yet Economist Simon Johnson reflects on the financial crisis.
The Motley Fool July 7, 2008 Morgan Housel	All Right, Now This Is Shady, Lehman Brothers Lehman has sold around $4.5 billion worth of assets to a newly formed hedge fund named R3 Capital Partners. Probe a little deeper, and the deal starts to look a bit shady.
The Motley Fool September 15, 2008 Brian Richards	Roundtable: Why You Should Care That Lehman Went Bust Lehman Brothers will soon be no more. Merrill Lynch is being acquired by Bank of America. And AIG is desperately trying to shore up its capital. These events are, without exaggeration, the biggest Wall Street headlines in a decade.
Wall Street & Technology June 22, 2004 Paul Allen	Lehman Moves in with AIGT The investment bank outsources its mainframe operations rather than update its existing facility.
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