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Regulated institutions and registered financial market entities lists

As the financial market regulator, the Czech National Bank publishes lists of regulated and registered financial market entities, primarily in order to give both professionals and the general public the opportunity to check whether the institutions or natural persons they might encounter on the Czech financial market are authorised to offer and provide financial services and products. The Czech National Bank endeavours to provide not just static lists, but an interactive tool for looking up supervised, regulated and registered entities.

The database allows users to search and view the up-to-date records held by the Czech National Bank as of a selected date either by running user-defined queries or by viewing predefined lists of regulated and supervised institutions and registered participants in the Czech Republic. The selected date cannot be prior to 01 January 2009. At the moment this database does not cover the lists of insurance intermediaries, which are published in a different way.

Records on the commencement and termination of authorisations, changes due to mergers and changes in an entity's name and scope of activity etc., are updated continuously. Other records, notably contact details (address, telephone, fax, email, website), are updated quarterly for banks, foreign bank branches and subsidiaries, credit unions, insurance providers and foreign insurance providers' branches and subsidiaries; for other participants they are updated upon notification by the relevant legal entity only. How up-to-date the data depends on whether a change notification has been received by the Czech National Bank and on the notification frequency of the legal entity submitting the notification.

The overall presentation is based on interactive links between the lists and more detailed records held on the individual entities. These are available in the form of an identity file on a financial market entity by clicking on the company name (or first name and last name for a natural person) in any list. The extent of the identity file differs for each participant type and contains items relevant to that type only. The identity file always pops up in a separate window.

Although maximum attention is devoted to ensuring that the data in the database are correct and up to date, given the large volume of the data and the technical properties of the Internet we cannot vouch for their completeness, accuracy and integrity. Therefore, if you believe that the database contains errors, please contact the Czech National Bank, especially if you intend to use the data for commercial purposes.

Description of the identity file

The identity file contains the following:

Information on the entity type. This item gives the name of the role in which the entity operates. The role represents a set of information that is identical for a particular category of financial market entities (e.g. banks, insurance companies, investment firms, etc.) According to the entity type (role), other items in the identity file are displayed.
Entity identification and contact information where available.
Data associated with the entity's authorization. Authorization is a general term for an action enabling the entity to offer the relevant service to the public, for example entry in the Companies Register following the issuing of a licence or permit, registration, or entry in a list. In addition to the date of authorisation, which is decisive for entering entities in the lists, the date on which the licence was granted by the Czech National Bank or permit took effect or the decision entered into legal force is included as well.
The scope of the entity's activities under the authorisation is available by clicking on "Authorised activities", where the activities the entity is authorised to perform as of the selected date are ticked. Where individual activities are not specified, the permit type is shown only.
Related links representing the relationship of the selected entity with other entities. Each link has its name followed in brackets by the number of entities that have a relationship with the selected entity. These entities can be viewed by clicking on the link name.
The entity's other roles. Each entity can operate in several roles. All the other roles in which the entity operates are listed here. The identity file corresponding to another role can be viewed by clicking on the name of the role. The currently selected role is given in the entity type item.
History of the entity - this item shows a summary of changes relating to mergers, changes of legal form, changes in the names, legal ties and scope of authorised activities in the period from 01 January 2009 to the selected date; for changes in the scope of authorised activities, the information will appear after clicking on the date of the change.