Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/266106 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
Staff Report No. 1022
Publisher: 
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York, NY
Abstract: 
We analyze how systemic cyber risk in the wholesale payments network relates to adverse financial conditions. We show that at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, payment activity increased, became more concentrated, and showed intraday liquidity stress. Cyber vulnerability was elevated in late February and early March 2020, with the potential impact of a cyberattack about 40 percent greater than in the remainder of 2020. Policy interventions to stabilize markets mitigated cyber vulnerability, particularly corresponding to large increases in aggregate reserves. We observe that cyber vulnerability and other financial shocks cannot be treated as uncorrelated risks and policy solutions for cyber security need to be calibrated for adverse financial conditions.
Subjects: 
cyber
banks
networks
payments
COVID-19
JEL: 
G12
G21
G28
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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