Other social projects
115th Žofín Forum
Fincentrum ČR has become the general partner of the 115th Žofín Forum, “Pension reforms in practice”. The 115th Žofín Forum will take place April 12, 2011, and speakers will include -- and questions will be answered by -- experts such as Jaromír Drábek, the Minister of Labor and Social Affairs of the CR; Klára Król, Deputy Minister of Finance of the CR; Jiří Rusnok, President of the Association of Pension Funds of the CR.
Computer crime in the banking sector
On April 15, 2008, Fincentrum organized a conference on the topic of computer piracy, phishing and hacking in the context of Czech banking. The entire event was organized within the scope of Bank of the Year Events and under the auspices of the Czech National Bank and the Czech Banking Association. The participants were not only professionals from the banking sector, but also specialized journalists dealing with this issue. The central topic of the conference was the recent hacker attacks on Česká spořitelna. But this issue also applies to other large players on the banking market, such as Komerční banka or Československá obchodní banka. The conference also included presentations by experts on this issue. Variety was provided by the panel discussions, during which the panelists agreed that computer pirates focused on this type of criminal activity pose a considerable danger not only to clients of the banks, but also to the banks themselves.
Supplementary pension insurance
On October 25, 2007, a conference on the topic of “How to prepare pension funds for the pension reform” took place on premises of the Hilton Hotel. The conference was organized by the www.investujeme.cz portal and the entire event was held under the professional auspices of the Employee Benefits Division of Fincentrum ČR.
The conference took place in a constructive spirit and the speakers and audience members included leading representatives of pension funds, the political representation, public administration employees, union employees and representatives of financial consulting companies. The speakers included, for example, J. Rusnok, President of the Association of Pension Funds and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the ING Pension Fund; M. Šimáček, Deputy to the Minister of Finance; P. Jirák, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Komerční banka’s pension fund; T. Matoušek, Chief Executive and Vice-chairman of the Board of Directors of Česká pojišťovna’s pension fund and others.