- Members of the National Emergency Supply Organisation’s Finance Pool participated in the financial sector’s FATO 2025 joint preparedness exercise. Its purpose was to improve the sector’s preparedness.
- The recent exercise was the first of the three exercises to be carried out in 2025.
- Regular FATO exercises are a vital part of the preparedness of financial sector companies and authorities. The financial sector regularly practises and tests its ability to respond to various disruptions and threats.
Organised by the National Emergency Supply Organisation’s Finance Pool, the Finnish financial sector’s FATO 2025 joint preparedness exercise focused on adjusting and improving preparedness measures. The purpose was to test the sector’s ability to respond to various severe disruptions and even emergency conditions.
In 2025, the Finnish financial sector practises for even more severe threats. In the first FATO exercise of the year, financial sector companies and authorities focused on adjusting their preparedness levels through different scenarios and feeds. The exercise aimed at increasing the financial sector’s understanding of how companies can increase their preparedness level in different parts of their operations. It also looked at the collaboration between organisations and how it could be improved.
Finance Finland’s Preparedness Specialist Ida Metsämäki says that the unstable global situation requires the financial sector to make its preparedness measures even more robust. It is easier for sector participants to further strengthen their preparedness when they exchange information effectively and proactively explore solutions together.
“Establishing a situational picture is particularly important in crisis situations, because accurate real-time information helps make quick and correct decisions. The financial sector is consistently improving its preparedness against a range of threats. These joint exercises are a key part of this preparedness planning”, says Metsämäki.
The National Emergency Supply Organisation’s Finance Pool includes members that represent credit institutions and other finance operations, the trade, safekeeping and settlement of securities, payment transactions and other payment traffic, cash management and financial sector authorities.
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