The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision issued two guidance documents concerning Operational Resilience including the Principles of Operational Resilience and  Revisions to the Principles for the Sound Management of Operational Risk.  Both documents take a principled approach which allows for a risk-based and proportional application to any requirements implemented. 

Specifically, the Principles of Operational Resilience state “By building upon existing guidance and current practices, the Committee is issuing a principles-based approach to operational resilience that will help to ensure proportional implementation across banks of various size, complexity and geographical location.”

Further, the Principles for Sound Management of Operational Risk states “Thus, the review of the Principles is also the opportunity to stress that this model should be adequately and proportionally used by financial institutions to manage every kind of operational risk subcategory, including ICT risk” (emphasis added).

World Council advocated for the inclusion of this emphasis on proportionality in its comment letters to the Basel Committee filed during their consultation period (here and here).  WOCCU applauds the Basel Committee on this principles based and proportional approach which will help increase credit unions’ capacity to withstand disruptions due to severe events, but in a manner commensurate with their size, risk, and complexity.

A copy of the Principles of Operational Resilience can be viewed here; and the Principles for Sound Management of Operational Risk can be viewed here.