Financial Services And Regulations

We will help you regulate your business activity in the financial market. The financial market in the Czech Republic is primarily regulated by the Czech National Bank, the Ministry of Finance, and the Financial Analytical Office. With our help you will set up processes and internal procedures in compliance with legal regulations, we will train your employees, draft an internal control system and all other required documents.

 

Financial Services Contracts

Financial service providers are generally obliged to enter into written contracts for financial services with their clients. Contracts may be concluded on paper or in electronic format, under the terms and conditions laid down by specific legal regulations for the relevant area of the financial market. Contracts may be concluded with clients in person, remotely, or tacitly. We will prepare sample contracts for you in all areas of the financial market, including terms and conditions, and service price lists. We are able to recommend a simple and legally-binding process of entering into contracts, even using electronic means or tacitly. We know how to implement the processes of AML/CFT to combat money-laundering into the process of concluding contracts, namely the identification, checking of the client and related obligations.

The long list of contracts for financial services that we are able to prepare for you includes contracts that mainly concern the following areas:

  • payment services and electronic money – master service agreements for payment services
  • consumer lending – consumer credit contracts
  • investment services – del credere agreements, intermediary contracts, and management contracts for investment services
  • collective investing – contracts on the subscription of investment funds, contracts for the administration of assets comparable to management according to Section 15 of the Management Companies and Investment Funds Act
  • insurance contracts – contracts on the arrangement or intermediation of insurance
  • currency exchanges – contracts on currency exchange services
  • issuance of bonds and other securities – contracts on the subscription and purchase of bonds and other securities
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Anti-money Laundering Measures (AML/CFT)

Measures to combat money-laundering and terrorist financing are primarily designed to prevent money-laundering through financial institutions or other obliged persons. We will deal with the following for you:

  • legal consultancy regarding the setting of AML processes
  • creation of a system of internal principles (internal regulations)
  • a system of assessing AML risks
  • annual evaluation report
  • training and testing of employees
  • communication with the Financial Analytical Office
  • assessing and reporting of suspicious transactions

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Compliance

Compliance, from the perspective of financial institutions, can be described as a regular supervision inspecting the conformity with obligations arising from legal regulations and the internal regulations in place at a company.

The field of ensuring compliance at financial or other institutions is relatively broad, and often hard to grasp from the perspective of regulation. Our law firm specialises in ensuring compliance, we are one of the few in the Czech Republic to have many years of practical experience in the provision of these services.

We are lawyers and know how to combine the achievement of compliance with legal services. What this means in practice is that we will not only set up an internal system of control, management of operating risks and of AML/CFT for you, but we will also create a tailor-made network of internal regulations for you, prepare client contracts and terms and conditions, and check contracts with your colleagues and business partners for you. Combination of compliance and legal services will make it possible for you to comprehensively cover the legal regulation of your business.

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Internal Auditing

Internal auditing is generally an integral part of the internal control system at financial or other companies. In order to perfectly master internal auditing, you need in-depth knowledge of the issue being audited and experience with internal processes at companies. The key elements of internal auditing are management control, internal system of control, risk management, and related issues.

The issue of internal auditing might seem a hard one to grasp. Our law firm and collaborating experts, however, have extensive experience in this area. We will be available to you and your employees for consultation.

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Reporting to the Czech National Bank (CNB)

Methods and ways of reporting to the Czech National Bank develop over time, meaning that you need to continually monitor the legislative requirements and changes. We will help you effectively compile regular reports and will prepare extraordinary reports, leaving you to concentrate solely on your business.

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We will deal with any regulation for you.