•  Business-resumption plans should reflect recovery-time objectives for critical functions. Previous assumptions about how long backup facilities may need to be used and their capacity levels should be revised to incorporate the possibility of longer-term disruptions and to accommodate normal or increased volume of transactions--as occurred when the markets reopened on September 17.
The process of financial globalisation, worldwide financial market integration and liberalisation of financial institutions moved faster than the global authorities themselves did with their control and surveillance systems. The approach now should not be for the markets to be stopped in their progress, but rather for the authorities to catch up.