Financial Stability & Crisis Preparedness Award

Evaluation

100% automatic, from the data and evidence you submit

Minimum score to win

70 / 100

Measurement period

Financial year 2025; crisis simulation exercises count over the three years to the end of 2025

Who can apply

• A central bank, financial stability committee or body with a legal financial stability or resolution mandate, or an initiative it runs
• The framework or initiative is in force and applied during the measurement period

Indicators and weights

1. Financial stability report

   What the authority published on systemic risk assessment in 2025

   10%
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   Points

   • Published annual report with a risk map, stress test results and the macroprudential stance100
   • Published report without stress test results60
   • Internal report only20
   • None0

   Evidence

   Link to the published report or its internal approval decision

2. Stress test coverage

   Share of banking-sector assets covered by system-wide stress tests (top-down or bottom-up) run in 2025

   15%
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   Points

   • 95 – < 100 % 100
   • 80 – < 95 % 80
   • 50 – < 80 % 50
   • 0 – < 50 % 20

   Evidence

   Stress test method and list of banks covered with their assets

3. Macroprudential tools in force

   Number of the following eight tools in force: countercyclical buffer, domestic systemically important bank buffer, loan-to-value cap, debt-service-to-income cap, sectoral concentration limits, foreign-currency liquidity requirement, systemic risk buffer, net open FX position limits

   15%
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   • 7.5 – < 8 items 100
   • 5 – < 7.5 items 75
   • 3 – < 5 items 45
   • 0 – < 3 items 15

   Evidence

   Reference numbers and dates of the decisions or circulars in force for each tool

4. Recovery plans for systemic banks

   Share of domestic systemically important banks with an approved recovery plan updated in the last two years; if the country has not designated such banks, the three largest banks by assets are used

   15%
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   • 90 – < 100 % 100
   • 70 – < 90 % 80
   • 40 – < 70 % 50
   • 0 – < 40 % 20

   Evidence

   List of systemic banks and the approval letter for each plan with the update date

5. Special bank resolution regime

   Whether a legal regime for resolving failing banks exists in line with the FSB Key Attributes

   15%
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   Points

   • Law in force designating a resolution authority with the main tools (transfer, bridge bank, bail-in)100
   • Partial resolution powers without a complete framework50
   • None0

   Evidence

   Text of the law or regulation with the relevant articles

6. Crisis simulation exercises

   Number of system-wide crisis simulations involving several authorities or banks in the last three years with an approved lessons-learned report

   15%
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   Points

   • ≥ 3 count 100
   • 2 – < 3 count 80
   • 1 – < 2 count 50
   • 0 – < 1 count 0

   Evidence

   Lessons-learned report or approved summary for each exercise

7. Early warning dashboard

   How often the systemic risk indicators dashboard is updated and how widely it is shared

   15%
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   Points

   • Monthly update, published100
   • Quarterly update, published75
   • Regular update for internal use only40
   • No dashboard0

   Evidence

   Link to the published dashboard or copies of the last four internal editions

Each indicator gives 0 to 100 points; its share of the total is its weight. Ties are decided by the indicators listed first in the scorecard; payment or package never affects the score.

1. Done

   Nominations open

   26 October 2026 · 13:10

2. Upcoming

   Nominations close

   27 November 2026 · 01:10

3. Upcoming

   Judging starts

   27 November 2026 · 01:11

4. Upcoming

   Judging ends

   4 December 2026 · 13:00

5. Upcoming

   Results announced

   4 December 2026 · 13:10

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