Choosing your angle

Where to start? Choose your profile

The site covers BCBS 239 and the RDARR Guide as a whole — but not all readers arrive with the same questions. Depending on your role, certain principles, articles and tools will be more directly useful to you. These are indicative paths, which do not replace reading the source texts.

Board member & governance CIO, IT & data governance Audit, control & risk
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Board member & governance
Director, risk committee, oversight function — your concern: knowing what the bank owes its supervisors, and verifying the framework holds up.
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Principles to know
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Reference
Test yourself Quiz — Pillar I, Governance Compliance self-assessment
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CIO, IT & data governance
Chief Information/Data Officer, architect, data quality lead — your concern: the architecture, traceability and controls that make aggregation possible.
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Principles to know
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Reference
Test yourself Quiz — Pillar II, Aggregation Quiz — RDARR Guide (ECB, 2024) Compliance self-assessment
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Audit, control & risk management
Internal audit, compliance, risk functions (2nd and 3rd lines) — your concern: assessing the framework, independent validation and remediation plans.
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Principles to know
To go further
Reference
Test yourself Quiz — Pillar III, Reporting Quiz — Pillar IV, Supervision Compliance self-assessment

New here? Start with the timeline to place the standard in time, then take the "Context & overview" quiz before diving into the principles.

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