Manifestly: A Checklist App for Teams

Map critical advisory and trading functions

Score disruption scenarios against RTO and RPO

Quantify revenue and client impact per outage hour

Identify single points of failure across vendors

Rank critical functions by recovery priority

Document recovery strategies per critical function

Define alternate site and remote-work failover

Assign BCP roles across operations and compliance

Compile the emergency contact tree

Draft client and regulator communication scripts

Train staff on BCP roles and call tree

Collect annual vendor BCP attestations

Run tabletop exercise on cyber and outage scenarios

Execute full failover drill with the custodian

Open remediation tickets for tabletop gaps

Schedule annual BCP review and CCO sign-off

Update plan for new advisors, locations, or systems

Confirm FINRA 4370 and SEC 206(4)-7 alignment

Refresh inventory of critical resources and SLAs

Store plan copies offsite and in secure cloud

Designate the crisis management team and alternates

Provision out-of-band communication channels

Pre-draft client and media holding statements

Document Reg S-P client notification procedures

Map FINRA, SEC, and state regulator notification paths

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