Strengthening the
Nation’s Critical
Infrastructure
A financial sector alliance to reduce systemic risk
We are a non-profit organization founded by the largest US banks to address systemic risk within our nation’s financial system.
Supporting more than $7 trillion of US payments activity daily and $3 trillion in trading across equity, debt, and foreign exchange – ARC members are major providers of liquidity in the key markets that underpin our economic and national security.
Together, we conduct assessments of the most critical market functions and financial systems, monitor and warn against threats to those systems, and develop measures to make them more resilient.
ARC MEMBER coalition
ARC’s Founding Members
ARC’s Founding Members
Meet our Board of Directors and the ARC Team
The ARC brings together expertise from the largest US banks to strengthen economic and national security while advancing resilience across the financial sector.
What We Do
ARC facilitates strategic engagement among member institutions as well as government and technology partners. We foster trusted information sharing, joint risk mitigation, and a unified response to address existing and emerging threats against essential financial operations.
Risk Identification
and Analysis
We develop and maintain a register of systemic risk and critical market functions.
This allows our members to harmonize activities, align on priorities, and address significant interdependencies.
Industry-Driven
Resilience Solutions
We harness sector expertise to deliver industry-led solutions and capabilities.
This enables financial services and other lifeline industries to mitigate organizational risks and strengthen sector-wide resilience.
Threat Monitoring
and Warning
We monitor systemically relevant threats to build shared awareness of sector risks and priority infrastructure.
This equips our members to safeguard essential functions and respond collaboratively.
Strategic Intelligence
Assessments
We prepare members to identify, monitor, and mitigate global business, operational, and technology risks.
Our work helps members align with government partners on priority threats and mitigation opportunities in high-risk regions.
Cyber and Technology
Risk Mitigation
We collaborate with technology partners to fill intelligence gaps, determine appropriate escalations, conduct sector-level threat hunts, and maintain a cyber-technology risk priorities register.
Our approach promotes the identification, assessment, and mitigation of global technology risks.