About This Event
“When the building goes dark, the central bank still has to open for business.”
A three-day workshop that reviews how central banks design, test and govern business continuity. You will work through business impact analysis, recovery strategies and crisis-management planning, and examine how to coordinate with commercial banks and market infrastructures so the financial sector stays operationally resilient in a disruption.
What You'll Explore
A business impact analysis template with agreed RTOs and RPOs
A crisis-management plan outline with command roles and triggers
Recovery strategy options for people, premises, IT and suppliers
A sector-wide continuity exercise design, ready to adapt at home
A gap review of your BCM programme against ISO 22301
Who Should Attend
Open to all qualifying staff, particularly: Business Continuity Managers, Operational Risk Managers, Heads of Facilities and Security, IT Disaster Recovery Leads, Crisis Management Team Members.
Why This Course Matters
Critical Functions First
A business impact analysis tells you which central bank services cannot stop and for how long. That clarity lets you spend continuity budget on the functions the economy relies on, not on everything equally.
Crisis Command Clarity
Clear roles, escalation triggers and communication lines decide how the first hours of a crisis go. When everyone knows who decides, the institution responds rather than waiting for instructions.
Sector-Wide Resilience
Your continuity depends on banks, payment systems and suppliers staying up too. Coordinated planning and joint exercises mean a disruption at one firm does not become a failure of the whole system.
Programme
Day 1
BCM strategy, governance & business impact analysis
You will review BCM governance against ISO 22301, then run a business impact analysis on core central bank services, setting recovery time and recovery point objectives that leadership can approve.
Day 2
Recovery strategies & crisis-management planning
You will design recovery strategies for people, premises, technology and suppliers, and build a crisis-management plan with clear command roles, escalation triggers and a communication protocol.
Day 3
Sector coordination, testing & exercise design
You will plan a sector-wide continuity exercise with banks and market infrastructures, then run a scenario-based simulation and capture the lessons that should feed your next plan revision.
Standards & Faculty Benchmark
ISO 22301 Business Continuity
The international standard for business continuity management systems, used to review your BCM.
BCBS Principles for Operational Resilience
The Basel Committee's 2021 principles on withstanding and recovering from severe disruption.
CPMI-IOSCO PFMI (Principle 17)
The operational risk principle requiring FMIs to plan for timely recovery after disruption.
These standards set the expectations auditors, supervisors and international peers use to judge continuity and operational resilience. Aligning your plans to them means your BCM programme holds up to external review and matches what you ask of the institutions you supervise.
Is This Right for You?
- ☑You own or contribute to your institution's continuity plans
- ☑Your institution is revising its crisis-management arrangements
- ☑You coordinate resilience planning with banks or FMIs
Good to Know
Suitable for both new and experienced continuity practitioners; the workshop assumes familiarity with your institution's operations rather than prior BCM certification. You leave with a reviewed BIA template, a crisis-management plan outline and an exercise design.
The Bottom Line
Bring back a continuity plan that has been tested in a live simulation and a crisis structure your leadership can stand behind.
Recommended For
Open to all qualifying staff, particularly: Business Continuity Managers, Operational Risk Managers, Heads of Facilities and Security, IT Disaster Recovery Leads, Crisis Management Team Members.