Board of directors as the statutory body of a bank

BOARD OF DIRECTORS AS THE STATUTORY BODY OF A BANK Abstract This thesis focuses on the board of directors as the statutory body of a bank, and provides a comprehensive view on the Czech, EU and selected foreign legal regulation of this area, with an emphasis on the specifics of the legal regulation of a bank's board of directors and the legal requirements imposed on its members, in comparison with the legal regulation of the boards of directors of other, "regular" Czech joint stock companies, i.e. joint stock companies not subjected to banking regulation and supervision of the Czech National Bank. The first chapter contains an overview of the relevant legal regulations and other sources - its aim is to provide an overview of the sources referred to herein together with a brief analysis of the binding nature of selected sources so that the reader gets an opportunity to better orientate themselves in the complicated area of banking regulation. The second chapter deals with the internal organisation of a bank as a joint stock company and other relating requirements imposed by the regulator on banks as so- called special business corporations, with an emphasis on the specific requirements in relation to the board of directors. In the third chapter, the focus shifts on the board of directors as a bank's..