FSB · Final Report · 15 April 2025
An unofficial reference resource for the Financial Stability Board's Format for Incident Reporting Exchange (FIRE) — the international standard for operational incident reporting by financial institutions.
FIRE — the Format for Incident Reporting Exchange — is a common information standard for reporting operational incidents (including cyber incidents) from financial institutions to regulatory authorities. It was published by the Financial Stability Board in its final report on 15 April 2025, following years of development and industry testing.
The framework defines 87 information items across four groups:
Reporting is structured around three escalating phases. The initial notification captures 19 essential fields; the intermediate update requires 33; and the final closed-incident report requires all 48 essential items. The 39 optional items are collected at each implementing authority's discretion.
Internationally active financial institutions currently face duplicative, inconsistent reporting requirements across jurisdictions — filing separate incident reports to multiple authorities in different formats. FIRE provides a common structure that authorities can adopt, reducing the burden on firms while enabling regulators to share data across borders more effectively.
FIRE is intentionally flexible: the 39 optional items give authorities room to tailor requirements to their jurisdiction, while the 48 essential items form a minimum baseline that any FIRE-compliant report must include at closure.
The Financial Stability Board is an international body that monitors and makes recommendations about the global financial system. It coordinates the financial regulatory policies of its member jurisdictions — which include the G20 economies — and has been working on harmonised cyber incident reporting since 2017.
The official FIRE report is a 100-page PDF with 87 fields spread across body text and 15 annexes. This site makes that content easier to navigate: searchable field tables, filterable annexes, and structured reference pages for each part of the standard.
This is an independent reference resource, not affiliated with or endorsed by the Financial Stability Board. The official FSB document is the authoritative source for all field definitions and requirements.