Sunday, January 17, 2010

NSE successfully completes live trading from alternate site

New Delhi, Jan 12 : The National Stock Exchange today said it completed a full-day live trading from its businesscontinuity site sucessfully on Monday.

The Bussiness Continuity Plan (BCP) site, located inChennai, is an alternative for the exchange's main serversituated in Mumbai, an NSE official explained.

The NSE has put in place the new arrangement to tacklebreakdowns due a natural calamity like earthquake and cyclone, the official said.

A NSE statement said the exchange completed tradingoperation from the BCP site during the day and then restoredback to the primary site in Mumbai.

During yesterday's trading all markets like capitalmarket, equity derivatives, whole sale debt market, mutualfunds, IPOs and currency derivatives were operational from theBCP site, the NSE said.

"Our IP network has been engineered for operation fromeither of our two sites and our members can connect to eitherof the two sites with great ease," it said.

NSE processed more than 75 million orders messages andexecuted more than 8 million trades from its BCP site, whichincludes a record number of trades in currency derivativessegment amounting to 4.3 million contracts equivalent to USD4.3 billion.

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