Aim was commissioned by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) to undertake the design, delivery and assurance of the IT DRstrategic solution and service continuity under PRINCE2 for the UK financial markets’ lead regulator and part of the tripartite group (with HM Treasury and the Bank of England). Key objectives were to (i) build the compelling business case for DR delivery, (ii) provision 40 critical systems for technical DR capability – Wintel, Unix/Oracle, web, networks, SAN, telephony, line of business applications, (iii) develop a maintainable DR process based on ITIL – SLAs and service continuity plans – and SHARE standards as part of service planning and project delivery, and (iv) implementation of a BIRA process using the BSI PD and BS25999 standards.