White Paper

Operational resilience: How to set and test impact tolerances

Operational resilience: How to set and test impact tolerances

Pages 22 Pages

The PwC white paper explains how to set and test impact tolerances as part of building operational resilience. Impact tolerance is the maximum disruption a critical business service can endure before causing intolerable harm to consumers, market integrity, or financial stability. PwC proposes a five-step approach: identify and map services, gather baseline data, set tolerances, scenario test, and establish governance. Firms must assess critical services, quantify tolerances, and run severe-but-plausible scenarios to validate them. Ongoing governance includes board-approved self-assessments, monitoring, and remediation. Impact tolerances complement risk appetite by focusing on survival after risks crystallize. Regulators expect firms to embed this into resilience frameworks within defined t

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