Operational Resilience

Regulatory Requirement for Operational Resilience

Written by Moh Heng Goh | Jun 10, 2022 11:03:52 AM

Changing Regulatory Attention to Operational Resilience

Operational resilience has been a priority for the regulatory community for years. Today, the regulatory focus is on how effectively financial service institutions (FSIs) can prevent incidents and how FSIs can recover from them in the shortest possible time.

The respective authorities are setting requirements and expectations for financial institutions (FIs) to identify their critical or important business services by considering how disrupting their services can impact their consumers, the industry, and the overall economy.

Regulatory authorities expect organizations such as the FSIs to understand their vulnerabilities and invest in protecting the end-users and themselves, their consumers, and the market to preserve the public's interest and retain continuity of supply of products and services, even during operational disruptions.

Regulatory and Governance Requirements

These are some of the regulations published and are being circulated now.  Please click the icon on the right for the latest copy of the regulatory requirement.  However, if it is dated, please click the URL for the regulator and search for "Operational Resilience".

International Regulators

Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS)

Bank of England

  • Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)

Central Bank of Ireland

International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO)

European Commission

Federal Reserve System (FED)

Australian Prudential Regulation Authority

 

Asian Regulators

Hong Kong Monetary Authority (31 May 2022)

Monetary Authority of Singapore (6 June 2022)

  • Objective: The Guidelines on Business Continuity Management (BCM) set out the need for financial institutions to take an end-to-end service-centric view in ensuring the continuous delivery of critical business services to their customers.

Financial Services Agency, The Japanese Government JFSA

 

Operational Resilience and Operational Risk Management - Draft guideline (2023)

  • OSFI (Canada) views operational resilience as an important objective of operational risk management and believes that operational resilience encompasses several risk management practices and capabilities; these include articulating risk appetite and setting risk tolerances for operational risk; identifying and analyzing critical operations, interconnections, and interdependencies; using scenarios and testing to assess resilience capabilities; and preventing, responding, adapting, recovering and learning from operational disruptions.
  • Website: https://www.osfi-bsif.gc.ca/en/guidance/guidance-library/operational-resilience-operational-risk-management-draft-guideline-2023


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