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Course BCCM-030

Continuity Planning for Financial Institutions

Banks, insurers, payment providers and investment firms operate services that customers and markets depend on every minu... The outline covers Resilience in Financial Services, Important Services and Impact Tolerances, M...

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  • 5 days
  • 09:00–14:00
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Introduction

Course overview

Banks, insurers, payment providers and investment firms operate services that customers and markets depend on every minute of the day. Regulators around the world now expect financial institutions to demonstrate operational resilience: to identify important business services, set impact tolerances and prove that they can stay within them during severe but plausible disruptions.

This Continuity Planning for Financial Institutions training course explains how to build continuity and operational resilience capability that meets these expectations. Participants learn how to identify important business services, map their resources, set impact tolerances, conduct scenario testing, manage third-party and technology dependencies, and coordinate crisis response and regulatory communication.

The course is grounded in the specific risks of financial services, including payment system outages, cyber attacks, market disruption and failures of critical outsourced providers.

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What you will achieve

Learning objectives

  • Explain regulatory expectations for continuity and operational resilience in financial services
  • Identify important business services and their customers
  • Map people, processes, technology, facilities and third parties supporting each service
  • Set impact tolerances and recovery objectives
  • Design and run severe but plausible scenario tests
  • Manage technology, cyber and outsourcing resilience
  • Coordinate crisis response and regulatory communication
  • Report resilience to boards and regulators

Who should attend

Target audience

  • Business continuity and operational resilience managers in financial institutions
  • Operational risk professionals
  • IT disaster recovery and technology resilience managers
  • Compliance and regulatory affairs professionals
  • Internal auditors in financial services
  • Heads of operations and payments

Methodology

Learning approach

  • The course combines regulatory briefings with practical workshops using financial services case studies. Participants identify important business services, build service maps, set impact tolerances and design scenario tests. A simulated payment system disruption tests crisis coordination and regulatory engagement.

Complete course outline

Five focused days of learning and application

The timings provided are estimates and may vary depending on the number of participants and the discussions taking place during the sessions. They are indicative only and do not constitute a binding commitment.

Day 1

Resilience in Financial Services

  1. Why financial institutions face heightened resilience expectations
  2. From business continuity to operational resilience
  3. Overview of international regulatory approaches
  4. Systemic risk and the wider financial ecosystem
  5. Coffee break
  6. Systemic risk and the wider financial ecosystem (continued)
  7. Lessons from major financial service outages
  8. Governance and board accountability for resilience
  9. Self-assessment of your institution's resilience maturity

Day 2

Important Services and Impact Tolerances

  1. Identifying important business services from the customer view
  2. Criteria for importance: customers, markets and safety
  3. Setting impact tolerances and maximum tolerable disruption
  4. Linking impact tolerances with recovery time objectives
  5. Coffee break
  6. Linking impact tolerances with recovery time objectives (continued)
  7. Documenting service definitions and rationale
  8. Board approval of services and tolerances
  9. Workshop: identifying services and setting tolerances

Day 3

Mapping and Vulnerabilities

  1. Mapping people, processes and technology for each service
  2. Facilities, data and third-party dependencies
  3. Identifying vulnerabilities and concentration risks
  4. Critical outsourcing and cloud service dependencies
  5. Coffee break
  6. Critical outsourcing and cloud service dependencies (continued)
  7. Tools and repositories for service mapping
  8. Prioritising remediation and resilience investment
  9. Exercise: building a service map

Day 4

Scenario Testing and Technology Resilience

  1. Designing severe but plausible disruption scenarios
  2. Testing ability to remain within impact tolerances
  3. Cyber attack and data corruption scenarios
  4. Coffee break
  5. Technology recovery and data restoration testing
  6. Third-party failure and exit scenarios
  7. Documenting test results and remediation
  8. Workshop: designing a scenario test

Day 5

Crisis Response and Regulatory Reporting

  1. Crisis management for financial service disruptions
  2. Customer communication and protecting vulnerable customers
  3. Regulatory notification and engagement during incidents
  4. Self-assessment documentation for regulators
  5. Coffee break
  6. Self-assessment documentation for regulators (continued)
  7. Board reporting and continuous improvement
  8. Simulation: a major payment system disruption
  9. Personal action plan for financial services resilience

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Continuity Planning for Financial Institutions

Next session: 7 - 11 December 2026, Barcelona

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What does Continuity Planning for Financial Institutions (BCCM-030) cover?

This course covers Business Continuity and Crisis Management through a structured five-day outline focused on practical application, discussion, and implementation planning.

When is the next available session?

The next scheduled session starts on 21 - 25 December 2026. See the course schedules section for the available dates and delivery formats.

Who should attend this course?

Business continuity and operational resilience managers in financial institutions, Operational risk professionals, IT disaster recovery and technology resilience managers

Is bilingual course delivery available?

Yes. All course materials and presentations are provided in English, while bilingual explanation and discussion support may be available depending on the selected location and trainer availability. For example, when attending a course in Istanbul, you may request a Turkish-speaking trainer to explain the English course content in Turkish. Arabic explanation support may also be requested at this location. Other languages are available in selected cities. You can choose your preferred language support as an optional preference during registration.

How can I register for a session?

Use any Register button next to the available course dates to open the participant registration page and submit your booking request for the selected session.

Is this course available online as well as classroom-based?

Check the course schedules section for currently published classroom and Online / Live sessions.

Where are classroom sessions delivered?

Current classroom venues include London, Barcelona, Frankfurt, Istanbul, Kuala lumpur, Madrid, Munich, Paris, Vienna, Amsterdam, Dubai, Geneva.

How long is the training programme?

The programme runs for five days from 09:00 to 14:00, which gives 25 contact hours, including a daily 30-minute break (22.5 hours of instruction).