Disclosure
Atlas Capital Services, LLCs Business Continuity
Planning
Atlas Capital Services, LLC (Atlas) 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 (212) 267-3500, you should go to our web site at
www.atlascapitalservices.com. If you cannot access us through either of
those means, you should contact our clearing firm, Emmett A. Larkin Co.,
Inc. at (415) 986-2332 or visit www.larkinonline.com for instructions
on how it may provide prompt access to funds and securities, enter orders
and process other trade-related, cash, and security transfer transactions
for our customers.
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 firms 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,
Emmett A. Larkin & Co., 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 in a timely manner.
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 severe. 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 a timely
manner. 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 a timely manner. In either situation,
we plan to continue in business, transfer operations to our clearing firm
if necessary, and notify you through our web site at www.atlascapitalservices.com
or our customer emergency number, (212) 267-3500. If the significant business
disruption is so severe that it prevents us from remaining in business,
we will assure our customers prompt access to their funds and securities.
For more information
If you have questions about our business continuity planning,
you can contact us at (212) 267-3500 or tdiamante@atlascs.com.
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