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Guidelines on Operational Resilience

Background

The Monetary Board. in its Resolution No. 1170 dated October 10, 2024 approved the guidelines on operational resilience in line with the Bangko Sentral’s thrust to foster continuous delivery of services to support inclusive and sustainable economic growth. The guidelines aim to promote and strengthen the Bangko Sentral Supervised Financial Institutions' (BSFls) ability to manage and mitigate the impact of disruptions particularly on their critical operations.

Amendments

The circular amends the Section 146/146-Q of the Manual o f Regulations for Banks (MORB)/Manual of Regulations for Non-Bank Financial Institutions (MORNBFI) on “Operational Risk Management” and hereby retitled to “Operational Risk Management ad Operational Resilience”. Additionally, the following guidelines are added to the MORB/MORNBFI:

  • Scope of Application – The guidelines on operational resilience shall apply to all BSFIs. BSFI shall prepare their operational resilience framework on a solo and group-wide basis, as applicable. In the design of its operational resilience framework, the BSFI shall consider the key elements and principles embodied in the amended section of the MORB/MORNBFI.
  • Key Elements of Operational Resilience – In designing the operational resilience framework, the following elements shall be considered.
    • Utilize existing governance structure to establish, oversee, and implement an effective operational resilience approach.
    • Determine critical operations, tolerance for disruption, and severe but plausible scenarios
    • Map interconnections and interdependencies
    • Plan and manage risks to critical operations
    • Test ability to deliver critical operations amidst disruption under sever plausible scenarios
    • Respond and recover from disruption
    • Review and refine and update risk management and operational resilience framework
  • Reporting and Notification Requirements – BSFIs shall disclose in their Annual Report the overarching approach to operational resilience. This includes providing an overview of the operational resilience approach and key information on the operational resilience components. Moreover, the BSFI shall inform the appropriate supervising department of the BSP within 24 hours from the activation of the incident response plan for critical operations. The notification shall indicate the following information, among others, as applicable:

a) Nature, duration and root cause of the disruption

b) Affected critical operations and impact of the disruption on the delivery of critical operations

c) Status if tolerance for disruption is breached, and

d) Actions that have been taken and/or intended to be taken by the management to continue delivery of critical operations

  • Effectivity – the circular shall take effect 15 calendar days following its publication in the Official Gazette or in a newspaper of general circulation.

 

Please see attached circular for further guidance.

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BSP Circular No. 1203

BSP Circular No. 1203

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