Business Continuity Planning Disclosure

M.E. Allison & Co., Inc. (the "Firm" or "M.E. Allison") is a full service independent broker/dealer. Our Firm operates as an introducing firm on a fully disclosed basis. Our Firm clears trades through National Financial Services, Inc.

Our Firm and our clearing firm use various mission critical systems to provide services to our customers.

We are a member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority ("FINRA") and the Securities Investor Protection Corporation ("SIPC"). You may obtain additional information relating to these entities at their respective website addresses as follows:

www.finra.org
www.sipc.org

Our business continuity planning ("BCP") first insures the safety and security of our employees. The events of 9/11 emphasized the unique skills of personnel who work in our industry, and the need to put their safety first so that after an interruption they are available to continue serving our customers. In addition to protecting our personnel, our BCP and daily operations are focused on preserving our critical Firm and customer data through regular backups which are moved offsite either via media and/or real time and near real time electronic copies of our data at remote locations.

  • Business Disruption to Building

    In the case of a business disruption at our building, our Firm has made arrangements to move our employees temporarily to the office of another broker/dealer. Our Firm expects to be able to conduct business within four (4) hours of a building shutdown.

  • Business Disruption to Business District

    Our Firm's site for resumption of business is outside of our local business district. Recovery time should be within four (4) hours.

  • Business Disruption to City

    Our Firm will notify customers they may contact their brokers at the following alternate phone numbers:


    210-771-5898

    210-872-6868


    Or they may contact our clearing firm directly at the following (please have available all associated documents necessary to identify the account owner):


    National Financial Services, Inc.

    200 Seaport Blvd.

    Boston, MA 02210

    800-801-9942


    And this information is posted on our Firm's Website:


    www.meallison.com

  • Business Disruption to Whole Region

    Customers will be notified that they may contact our clearing firm directly at the address above. Our clearing firm expects to be able to restore access to data within fifteen (15) minutes using backup generators. If they are required to activate their business resumption space, the planned recovery time for mission critical functions is four (4) hours.


    Our planned recovery times for business disruptions may be negatively impacted by the unavailability of external resources and other circumstances beyond our control.

Trade Execution Quality

SEC Rule 606

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Rule 606 requires all broker/dealers that route orders in equity and option securities to publish quarterly reports that provide a general overview of their routing practices. This report must identify the venues to which non-directed customer orders in U.S. exchange-listed equity securities and options were routed for execution, and disclose the material aspects of the broker/dealer's relationship with such venues. The purpose of this report is to provide the public with information on how broker-dealers route orders, enable the evaluation of order routing practices and foster competition among market participants. Upon request, broker-dealers also must disclose to customers the venues to which their individual orders were routed. Each customer may request a written copy of the report be mailed to them at no charge.

M.E. Allison & Co., Inc. enters all equity orders through the order entry system of our primary custodian and clearing firm, National Financial Services, Member SIPC, a registered broker dealer and non-bank affiliate of Fidelity. With the exception of our clearing broker/introducing broker relationship with NFS, we have no material relationships with any of the venues referenced in the NFS reports. We do not receive any compensation or payment for order flow. The SEC Rule 606 requires broker dealers that route orders in certain equity and option securities to make available quarterly reports that present a general overview of their routing practices. If you would like to obtain further information regarding the primary market centers selected by NFS to handle orders, you may access NFS’s quarterly “Order Routing Report” by accessing this web link
(Public Disclosure – SEC Rule 606 Reports).


FINRA Brokercheck

Please note that we cannot accept or execute a securities transaction using instructions received via email.

Securities products and services offered through M.E. Allison & Co., Inc. a registered broker/dealer. Member FINRA/SIPC.

950 E. Basse Rd., Second Floor
San Antonio, Texas 78209
Telephone (210) 222-0111
Facsimile (210) 222-0216

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For your protection, do not include account numbers, social security numbers, passwords, or other non-public information in any e-mail. Email communications may contain viruses or other defects. M.E. Allison & Co., Inc. does not accept liability nor does it warrant that email communications are free of viruses.

Please note neither M.E. Allison & Co., Inc. nor its representatives provide legal or tax advice.

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