This report has been prepared by Virginia Robano, Ana Sasi-Brodeski and Nayana Satpathy under the supervision of Iota-Kaousar Nassr and with oversight from Fatos Koc and Serdar Çelik within the OECD Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs. Liv Gudmundson and Eva Abbott provided editorial and communication support.
This report is the outcome of a comprehensive consultative process that involved representatives from different stakeholder groups of the Czech FinTech ecosystem over the period April 2022 – May 2023.
The authors gratefully acknowledge valuable input and constructive feedback provided by Alex Ivančo, Lenka Franče Rejzková and Barbora Kochová from the Ministry of Finance of the Czech Republic, Michal Vodrážka and Tomáš Olexa from the Czech National Bank, as well as by Edouard Gomet from the European Commission’s Directorate‑General for Structural Reform Support.
This Project was funded by the European Union via the Technical Support Instrument (TSI), and implemented by the OECD, in cooperation with the Directorate-General for Structural Reform Support of the European Commission.
The European Commission’s Directorate General for Structural Reform Support (DG REFORM) provides support for the preparation and implementation of growth-enhancing administrative and structural reforms by mobilising EU funds and technical expertise, in accordance with the criteria and principles referred to in Article 7(2) of the Regulation (EU) 2017/825. For additional information, please see: https://commission.europa.eu/funding-tenders/find-funding/eu-funding-programmes/technical-support-instrument/technical-support-instrument-tsi_en.
For more on this project please visit https://www.oecd.org/finance/oecd-project-on-data-in-financial-services-in-the-czech-republic.htm.