Czech National Bank

The Czech National Bank is one of Europe's few fully integrated supervisors — monetary policy, resolution, and oversight of the entire Czech financial market under one roof in Prague. It became the MiCA competent authority in February 2025 and took in 245 crypto licence applications in its first year; grants could begin only once the Czech transposition timetable allowed, and by mid-2026 the CNB had authorised 11 CASPs and one e-money token issuer. Everything below is the CNB's own data, from its FY2025 annual report.

CNB is an integrated central bank. The staff figure covers the whole institution, including monetary policy, currency and reserve management functions alongside supervision, and is not directly comparable with standalone supervisory authorities.

Figures as published by Czech National Bank for FY2025. Source: Annual Report of the Czech National Bank 2025 (English). Data as of 31 December 2025. Supplementary: Financial Statements as at 31 December 2025 (ruz_2025_en.pdf).

Full board

Staff figures cover the whole institution — monetary policy, international reserves management, currency issuance, statistics and resolution alongside supervision. CNB does not publish a supervision-only headcount; headcount is down 5.1% from 1,516 in 2022 following a deliberate streamlining programme. FX: CZK 24.7/EUR, the 2025 average rate stated in the annual report.

Scope totals: institutions only ~1,566 · plus bureaux de change ~2,368 · all including retail intermediaries ~46,970.

Per-sector inspections, penalty decisions and fines. Public submissions received: 1,107 (credit institutions), 1,100 (insurance), 299 (consumer credit), 269 (retail distributors), 176 (investment firms), and smaller volumes elsewhere.

CNB became competent authority for crypto-assets on 15 February 2025, under the Act on the Digitalisation of the Financial Market.

Grants began in 2026 once the Czech transposition allowed: 11 CASPs and one e-money token issuer authorised as of July 2026. Source: ESMA MiCA register.