The three European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA and ESMA – the ESAs) have published an indicative overview of information and communication technology (ICT) third-party providers (TTP) as part of their preparations for the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA).
The analysis aimed to map the provision of ICT services by TPPs to financial entities in the European Union and to support the ESAs’ policy making process in light of the European Commission’s call for advice to further specify the criteria for critical ICT TPPs and to determine oversight fees.
The data collection exercise on which the Report is based was the first of its kind, covering ICT-related contractual arrangements for entities across the financial sector. Overall, the exercise has identified around 15,000 ICT TPPs directly serving financial sector entities across the EU. These entities will all have to meet the operational resilience requirements of DORA.
It has found that the most frequently used ICT TPPs support critical or important functions for their clients in a wide range of services. In addition, most critical services were classified as non-substitutable by financial institutions.
