Canadian Financial Sector Resiliency Group

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Canadian Financial Sector Resiliency Group (CFRG) is a public-private partnership led by the Bank of Canada that is designed to strengthen the financial sector’s critical infrastructure against risks to business operations, including cyber incidents.

Mandate

CFRG’s mandate is to enhance the operational resilience of Canada’s critical financial sector by:

• facilitating operational resiliency initiatives for the critical financial sector (during the normal course of business), such as regular crisis simulations
• coordinating critical finance sector responses to systemic-level operational incidents (during crisis coordination)1

When activated, the CFRG coordinates the critical finance sector’s response to potential or actual systemic-level operational incidents. The CFRG does this by facilitating information-sharing between public and private sector members—including with relevant crisis management committees—to discuss details of the incident, options for resolving it and collective actions to limit contagion and ensure consistent external communication efforts.

In cases where the CFRG has not been activated, it may still hold situational awareness meetings at the request of its members.

Membership

Criteria

Subject to the Chair and Co-Chair’s approval, the following entities are eligible to be members:

• government bodies and agencies responsible for legislation, policies, supervision or oversight of Canada’s critical financial sector
• operators of Canadian financial market infrastructure (FMI) designated as systemically important or as prominent payment systems under the Payment Clearing and Settlement Act (PCSA)
• financial institutions that participate directly in Canadian designated payment clearing and settlement systems with significant annual volumes and values within these systems, known as systemically important financial institutions

Members

Public sector

• Bank of Canada
• Department of Finance Canada
• Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI)
• Canadian Deposit Insurance Corporation (CDIC)
• Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (FCAC)
• Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC)
• Communications Security Establishment (CSE)
• Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF)

Operators of designated FMIs

• Payments Canada
• TMX Group
• Interac Corporation

Canadian systemically important financial institutions

• Royal Bank of Canada
• TD Bank Group
• Bank of Montreal
• Scotiabank
• Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
• National Bank of Canada
• Desjardins

Contact

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