Critical Financial Infrastructure

Critical Financial Infrastructure — Systems and services whose disruption could materially impair payments, markets, settlement or financial stability.

Why Critical Financial Infrastructure matters in finance

Security priorities change when failure has consequences beyond a single institution.

Security is also a market-infrastructure question

In financial services, critical financial infrastructure 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.