Standards
BCBS 516 — Principes de résilience opérationnelleBCBS

Principles for Operational Resilience

The text that shifted the financial sector from process-based continuity to a logic of critical services and impact tolerance. Seven principles requiring identification of critical operations, mapping of the resources supporting them, and explicit tolerances.

Official text

Who it applies to

  • Operational resilience functions
  • Bank executive committees
  • Regulators and supervisors

Structuring points

  • Impact tolerance is a ceiling of acceptable degradation, not a recovery target
  • Mapping must reach third-party dependencies and key people
  • Severe but plausible scenarios are the real test of the framework
  • Operational resilience subsumes continuity; it does not replace it

Banks, though the model has been adopted by insurance and markets regulators.

Requirements 4