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42 Financial Services: CNB licence 2011/12955/570

Issuing authority
Czech National Bank
Jurisdiction
Czech Republic
Licence type
Institution Forex License

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Czech National Bank 2011/12955/570

Recorded from the firm's own disclosure. Not yet checked against the register.

Holder
42 Financial Services a.s.
Issuing authority
Czech National Bank
Name on the register
42 Financial Services a.s.
Jurisdiction
Czech Republic
Licence type
Institution Forex License
Effective
Nov 15, 2011
Permissions
Investment firm (MiFID II) · Organised Trading Facility (OTF) operator

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What we checked

Nobody has adjudicated this licence yet. It is recorded here as claimed, not as confirmed.

Wikilix check
Not checked
Authority strength
Tier 2
Jurisdiction
Czech Republic
Last checked
Never

Verification note

Investment-firm authorisation published on the company's own regulatory hub, granted 15 November 2011, covering reception and transmission of orders, execution of orders on client account and operation of an Organised Trading Facility in bonds, financial and commodity derivatives, money-market instruments and emission allowances. Scope is professional clients only; no retail client onboarding. The Czech Commercial Register records the same permitted scope for the entity. Not independently confirmed against the supervisor's own firm register in this run.

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The register

What the authority publishes

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Licence number
2011/12955/570
Issued to
42 Financial Services a.s.
Licence type (Wikilix classification)
Institution Forex License
Effective from
Expires
No expiry shown
Permissions
Investment firm (MiFID II)Organised Trading Facility (OTF) operator
The authority

About CNB

Czech National Bank is the authority that issued this licence, and the jurisdiction it applies in is Czech Republic.

Full name
Czech National Bank
Jurisdiction
Czech Republic
Strength
Tier 2Well-established regimes with real supervision, usually with lower compensation limits than tier 1.
Established
1993
Oversight
A government or statutory body
Firms we track under it
2 firms
Regulates
Forex, Stocks
Licences it issues
MiFID investment firm (incl. dealing on own account, execution)
Typical cost of a licence
Initial capital €50k–730k plus CZK 100k admin fee
Public register
Searchable by the public
Transparency
Medium
Protection

What this licence protects

CNB's own rules for the firms it authorises.

  • Compensation schemeDeposit insurance up to EUR 100,000 per depositor
  • Complaints routeCNB complaints process
  • Maximum leverage1:30
This describes the authority's regime, not how 42 Financial Services applies it.
The holder

Who holds this licence

The licence above is recorded against 42 Financial Services. A licence is issued to a legal company, so the companies below are what you would search a corporate register for.

Broker
42 Financial Services a.s.
Named on the register
42 Financial Services a.s.
Based in
Czech Republic
Operating
15-20 years
Wikilix score
29.5the firm’s overall score, not a rating of this licence

Recorded companies

The name this register printed matches 42 Financial Services a.s. below.

  • 42 Financial Services a.s.Matches the registerCzech Republic · Akciová společnost (joint-stock company) · Reg. 28492722 · Nov 28, 2008
  • 42 Financial Services Holding s.r.o.Czech Republic · Reg. 17843774 · 100% owned
Provenance

Where this record came from

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Last checked by Wikilix
Never — nobody has looked this entry up yet
Record last edited
When this entry was last changed in our database, which may be a correction rather than a change at the register.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Questions about this licence

Answered from this register entry and the authority’s own record.

Most Popular Questions

Its regulatory hub publishes the articles of association, annual statements, a Wolfsberg questionnaire, pre-trade information, client categorisation, information on investment instruments and their risks, a product schedule, IDB and energy terms and conditions, the OTF rulebook, a user guide, a costs and fees document, an execution policy, a conflict of interest policy, a complaints handling policy, an anti money laundering statement, a GDPR policy and statements on ethical and anti-corruption standards. Most are published in Czech.

By telephone on +420 233 084 242, by email at info@42fs.com, or at the registered office at Klimentska 46, 110 02 Prague 1. The company also maintains a LinkedIn page and a whistleblowing channel. There is no live chat.

The company describes itself as a wholesale venue for the CEE region and names major European banks and multinational financial institutions as its clients. It publishes no list of accepted or restricted jurisdictions, and no onboarding form exists from which an enforced country list could be read.

Nothing found in this research supports that. The company behind the brand is a named, currently active Czech joint stock company at a verifiable Prague address, with its officers, shareholder, share capital and permitted business scope all recorded in the state Commercial Register, and its regulatory documentation published in full. The realistic risk for a reader is a different one: mistaking a wholesale intermediary for a retail trading provider it is not.

The company publishes no deposit or withdrawal channels, no payment methods and no funding fees, which is consistent with an intermediary that brokers trades between institutional counterparties rather than holding retail client balances.

The legal entity was entered in the Czech Commercial Register on 28 November 2008 and is still active. The company's own timeline dates the emergence of the 42 Financial Services business name to 2011 and the conversion to a joint stock company to 2013.

It runs two brokerage desks. The inter-dealer broker desk intermediates trades in government bonds, interest rate and currency derivatives and deposits between banking counterparties. The energy desk brokers physical and financial energy products. It also operates an Organised Trading Facility on which bonds, structured financial instruments, EU emission allowances and derivatives may be traded.

No. The company refers only to its own trading facility and to a proprietary information system supporting trading and reporting, for which it publishes a user guide. No third party retail platform is offered.

The company publishes no leverage figures. Leverage is a retail trading account parameter and this firm does not operate retail trading accounts.

None is published, because the company does not take retail deposits. Access is through a negotiated corporate client relationship rather than an online account funded by a minimum sum.

No. The company's published scope of business covers securities dealer activities for professional customers, described in the register as banks, financial institutions and commodity dealers. The website publishes no registration form, no account types and no client portal for individual traders.

The operating company is 42 Financial Services a.s., identification number 28492722, registered in the Commercial Register kept by the Municipal Court in Prague under file B 19423. Its sole shareholder is 42 Financial Services Holding s.r.o., identification number 17843774, at the same Prague address. The board is chaired by David Kreisinger, with Michal Pokorny as vice chairman.

The company states on its own regulatory hub that 42 Financial Services a.s. holds an investment firm licence granted by the Czech National Bank on 15 November 2011 under reference 2011/12955/570, and that it is authorised to operate an Organised Trading Facility under MiFID II. The Czech Commercial Register independently records the same permitted scope of business for the entity. The licence reference itself was not confirmed against the supervisor's own firm register in this research.

Licence 2011/12955/570 was issued by Czech National Bank (CNB), the financial authority for Czech Republic.
42 Financial Services holds this CNB licence. A licence on record means the authority published an entry; it is not an endorsement.
Nobody at Wikilix has looked this entry up on the CNB register yet, so treat it as claimed rather than confirmed. That is a gap in our coverage, not a finding against the licence.
The CNB register prints it under 42 Financial Services a.s., not 42 Financial Services. Licences are often held by a subsidiary rather than the trading brand, which is why searching a register for the brand alone can return nothing.
Wikilix rates CNB tier 2: a well-established regime with real supervision, usually with lower compensation limits than a tier-1 authority.
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