Business Continuity Planning for Government Cash and Debt Management

Technical Notes and Manuals, September 21, 2021

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Bibliographic details

• Authors: Emre Balibek, Ian Storkey, Hakan Yavuz
• Published: September 21, 2021
• Series: Technical Notes and Manuals
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781513597973.005

Overview and Purpose

• Cash and debt management operations are part of the “transactional” functions of public financial management.
• The manual aims to provide guidance on the steps that government cash and debt management units can follow to develop and implement a practical business continuity plan that economizes the resources used.
• It discusses the evolving nature of business disruption risks faced by cash and debt management over the last decade, including the COVID-19 pandemic, and the risk mitigation solutions that have emerged.

Key Findings and Analytical Themes

• Transactional resilience: Cash and debt management functions must be resilient to external disruptions, ranging from information and communication technology (ICT) system outages to natural disasters.
• Evolving risks: Business disruption risks faced by cash and debt management have evolved over the last decade, with the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted as a major recent example.
• Resource efficiency: Business continuity planning should aim to economize the resources used while ensuring continuity of critical transactional functions.
• Risk mitigation solutions: The manual discusses various risk mitigation solutions that have emerged in response to evolving disruption risks.

Practical Guidance Emphasized

• Steps to develop and implement a business continuity plan tailored to government cash and debt management units.
• Conducting business impact analysis and addressing operational risk as part of continuity planning.
• Integrating ICT outage preparedness and responses to natural disasters and pandemics into continuity plans.

Subjects and Keywords (as listed)

• Subjects:
  • Asset and liability management
  • COVID-19
  • Debt management
  • Expenditure
  • Financial regulation and supervision
  • Government cash management
  • Government debt management
  • Health
  • Operational risk
  • Public debt
  • Public financial management (PFM)
• Keywords:
  • Business continuity planning
  • business disruption risk
  • business disruption risks
  • business impact analysis
  • cash and debt management
  • COVID-19
  • Debt management
  • debt management function
  • debt management performance assessment
  • debt management unit
  • Global
  • government cash management
  • Government cash management
  • Government debt management
  • Operational risk
  • operational risk management
  • pandemic
  • part of government cash and debt management

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• Business Continuity Planning for Government Cash and Debt Management; September 21, 2021
  • Business Continuity Planning for Government Cash and Debt Management; September 21, 2021 (Markdown version)
  • Business Continuity Planning for Government Cash and Debt Management; September 21, 2021 (PDF)