London bomb blasts test contingencyplans

Staff at UBS’s Liverpool Street office were forced to evacuate the London FX dealing rooms, with the bank moving staff to other offices around London and making use of its global sites. Farooq Muzammal, head of foreign exchange at Refco in London, said no evacuation procedure was required at the US brokerage firm. “Although, in such extreme cases, we do have a disaster recovery site in London, and our back-up procedures also mean that at the flick of a switch we can divert customers to our other