Financial systems have become among the most complex socio-technical infrastructures in contemporary society, simultaneously responsible for facilitating global economic exchange and for stabilizing the livelihoods of billions of people. Their growing dependence on digital platforms, algorithmic decision-making, and interlinked infrastructures has magnified both their operational efficiency and their vulnerability to disruption. Against this background, resilience engineering has emerged as a dominant theoretical and practical framework for understanding how complex systems can continue to function under conditions of stress, volatility, and uncertainty. While resilience engineering has been extensively developed in domains such as healthcare, aerospace, safety-critical operations, and communication networks, its systematic application to financial infrastructures remains comparatively underdeveloped. This article advances a comprehensive theoretical and empirical synthesis that situates financial system resilience within the broader evolution of resilience engineering, while explicitly integrating insights from engineering, organizational safety, legal resilience, and communication network survivability. Central to this analysis is the recognition that financial uptime during periods of market turbulence is not merely a technical challenge but a socio-organizational and governance problem, as highlighted by recent scholarship on resilience engineering in financial systems (Dasari, 2025).

Resilience engineering, financial systems, system survivability, organizational adaptability

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