QUICK DEFINITION
DORA — The EU Digital Operational Resilience Act, a framework establishing ICT risk, incident, testing and third-party resilience requirements for financial entities.
WHY IT MATTERS
Why DORA matters in finance
It makes digital operational resilience a formal governance and supervisory concern across EU finance.
FINANCIAL SYSTEM CONTEXT
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In financial services, dora 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.