Osoba s osobitným vzťahom k banke

Pursuant to Act No. 483/2001 Coll. on Banks and on amendments and supplements to certain acts, Banks and foreign bank branches may not conduct transactions with persons who have a special relationship with them, which they would normally, given the nature, purpose or riskiness thereof, not carry out with other clients.

For the purposes of this Act, the following persons are deemed to have a special relationship with a bank:

a) Members of the bank’s statutory body, managers, other staff members named in the bank’s articles of association, and the bank’s authorised representative;

b) Members of the bank’s supervisory board;

c) Persons exercising control over the bank, statutory body members, and managers of such legal entities;

d) Persons closely related* to the bank’s statutory body members, supervisory board members, senior employees of the bank or natural persons who have control over the bank;

e) Legal entities in which some of the persons mentioned in subparagraphs (a), (b), (c) or (d) have a qualifying holding;

f) Shareholders with a qualifying holding in the bank and any legal entity controlled by them or controlling them;

g) Legal entities controlled by the bank,

h) Members of the Bank Board of the National Bank of Slovakia,

i) Auditors or natural persons who, on behalf of an audit firm, performs an audit in the bank;

j) Members of another bank’s statutory body, chief executive officer of a foreign bank branch;

k) The bank´s covered bond programme administrator and covered bond programme deputy administrator;

l) Persons who have entered into a legal relationship with the bank, which may lead to the acquisition of a qualifying holding in the bank.

*A closely related person is defined as a direct relative, sibling, or spouse; other persons in a family or similar relationship shall be considered closely related if the harm suffered by one of them could reasonably be felt by the other as their own.