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A Microsoft Outlook outage disrupted communications for Rita Elkazzi, UBS’s execution-sales head for Australia and New Zealand, Bloomberg reports. She switched to phones and other channels during a volatile week in markets.
Why it mattersThat is a specific operational impact of the wider Microsoft outage, not evidence that trading stopped or that all market desks were affected. The story adds a useful glimpse of how quickly a communications failure can reach a financial desk.
Discuss: For market teams, is a phone fallback enough protection against a major email outage, or should firms plan for a broader communications failure?
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