QUICK DEFINITION
Business Continuity — Planning and capabilities designed to keep essential business activities operating during disruption.
WHY IT MATTERS
Why Business Continuity matters in finance
It reduces the economic and customer impact of outages, disasters and cyber incidents.
FINANCIAL SYSTEM CONTEXT
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In financial services, business continuity should be understood in relation to operational continuity, data integrity, payments, market infrastructure and interconnected dependencies. A control can be technically effective while still leaving material resilience risk if critical services cannot continue or recover during disruption.