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Vendor Resilience Can No Longer Stop at the Contract
Financial institutions must rethink third-party resilience around critical services, continuous monitoring and deeper supply-chain dependencies. Risk leaders warned that annual assessments and contractual protections cannot provide sufficient visibility as cyber threats, fourth parties, regulatory expectations and AI transform increasingly interconnected vendor ecosystems.
Sep 04, 2026
Center for Financial Professionals ,
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Vendor and Third Party Risk
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- Third-party
resilience must cover pre-contract activity through offboarding
- Annual assessments
cannot capture rapidly changing cyber and operational threats
- Fourth and fifth
parties create significant visibility challenges
- Criticality should
reflect dependencies on important business services
- Institutions need
continuous monitoring alongside contractual protections
- Vendor
classifications should be regularly reviewed and back-tested
- AI can accelerate
TPRM processes but still requires human judgment
- Non-critical vendors
may become critical during disruption
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