Park Avenue Securities LLC (“PAS” or “Firm”) has developed a Business Continuity Plan with the protocols required by law to confront events that may significantly disrupt our business. However, since the timing and impact of disasters and disruptions are unpredictable, we are always ready to adapt and improvise critical solutions responding to real-life situations. Our principals are clear: in times of emergency, we give top priority to the physical wellbeing of our people and the protection of our client’s financial assets and confidential information.
Contacting Us – After a significant business disruption event, you should call our main-office telephone, 888.600.4667, or go to our website (www.parkavenuesecurities.com) for guidance. If you cannot contact us, please contact our clearing firm, Pershing LLC (“Pershing”), at 201.413.3635 or www.pershing.com, and they can provide you with instructions on how to access your funds and securities. These include entering orders, confirming orders, and processing other service-related and money transfer transactions.
Our Business Continuity Plan – Our goal when confronted with a significant business disruption event is to recover and renew operations as soon as possible. Our protocols include safeguards for protecting our employees and property, assessing financial and operational capabilities, protecting the Firm’s books and records, and providing access to our customers’ assets and transactional ability.
Our business continuity plan addresses: data backup and recovery; all mission-critical systems; financial and operational assessments; alternative communications with customers, employees, and regulators; alternate physical location of employees and operations; contact with critical suppliers, contractors, banks, and counter-parties; regulatory reporting; and assuring our customers prompt access to their funds and securities even if we are unable to recover.
– Significant business disruption event can affect our Firm’s office, the 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 necessary and expect to recover and resume business within hours during a normal market day, or the next business day. A major disruption affecting our business district, city, or region, may force us to transfer our operations to a site outside of the affected area, and recover and resume business within a period of 24 to 72 hours.