The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP)-led Financial Stability Coordination Council (FSCC) has completed the Systemic Risk Crisis Management (SCRM) framework, one of the government’s timely and relevant policies to contain risks to the country’s financial stability.
The BSP on Tuesday, May 31, announced that the SCRM framework will be launched on June 6.

“The FSCC has been working on the various aspects of the market arrangements for the (SRCM) framework while collaborating closely with various stakeholders,” the BSP said in an email, explaining why it took a while to launch the SCRM.
Basically, the SCRM framework will ensure the Philippines will be prepared and not caught unawares when systemic risk damages materialize. It outlines the coordination of all of the financial regulators in the FSCC in case systemic risks escalate into a full-blown financial crisis.
The SCRM includes the following: continuous surveillance of risk trends; review of infrastructures; conduct of systemic stress tests; and arrangements for communication, both under normal and stressed conditions.
“The SRCM identifies key actions required to assess, categorize, manage, and communicate systemic risks. This is an important pre-emptive initiative to ensure crisis preparedness at the system level and reflects the council’s commitment to managing systemic risks,” said the BSP on Tuesday.
“It also has a particular focus on climate-related risks as well as cyber security risks. These will be fully scoped as part of the going (FSCC) concern agenda,” the BSP added.
The FSCC is composed of the BSP, the Department of Finance, the Insurance Commission, the Philippine Deposit Insurance Corp., and the Securities and Exchange Commission. Malacanang’s Executive Order no. 144 signed last year, institutionalized the FSCC. The FSCC’s 2022 work program is aiming for growth sustainability and to make the financial system even more resilient, after reviewing the emerging global risks and assessing the local market impact.
Meantime, Diokno has recently led the Financial Stability Board Regional Consultative Group for Asia (FSB-RCGA) in pursuing climate-related financial risks during a virtual FSB-RCGA meeting. Diokno is co-chair of the FSB-RCGA with Reserve Bank of India Deputy Governor Rajeshwar Rao.
The FSB regional group has 17 jurisdictions as members. It includes Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong SAR, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines.
The recent online meeting, conducted twice a year, discussed the financial market developments in the wake of the Russia-Ukraine war such as the highly volatile commodity prices and its implications for financial stability, said the BSP.