What the agents may expect...

The Ministry of Finance of Slovak Republic
in close co-operation with the Slovak National
Bank put forward a draft of the Act on ...

Educational Activities

The Association offers educational activities on the request and/or order of a member on the following topics ...

The Lectures Offered

We offer the following lectures and workshops – focusing on the needs especially of business agents and managers....

The Association of Financial Agents and Advisors

The Association of Financial Agents and Advisors (hereafter "AFISP" or "the Association") in accordance with the Conception of the Protection of the Rights of Financial Services Consumers and Ensuring Financial Education and the Regulation of Agent and Advise Activities in Financial Markets approved by the Government of the Slovak Republic on August,1st, 2007 defines its mission and goals in compliance with the conception and with regard to the protection of the interests of its members specializing in agent and advise activities in financial markets.

While supporting the social need for the protection of financial services consumer rights the association will also help to prepare the legislation that will guarantee the transparency of the financial services of its own members, professional competence of financial agents and advisor and the public as well.

In compliance with the Conception the Association defines the tasks for a short-term period of one year and a long-term period three and more years.

In the interest of achieving success in its activities and become a respected authority among the financial market subjects the Association has set the following strategic tasks to be fulfilled: to establish a representative body to put together competing subjects having a major share in turnover in the financial agent advise services market to solve common problems of financial business and to supervise their business activities. The Association will also provide backing for its members to ensure a high quality of financial agent and advise services.

Our mission is to play a significant role in the development of the social, economic and regulatory framework in which our members operate, thereby assisting members to serve their customers better.

To ensure the high quality of financial agents and advise business activities we provide:

experts to participate in creating relevant legislation,
continuous professional consultations in performing financial activities and communication of the Association members and their partners with end-consumers or a potential end-consumers to maintain high-quality services of provided by our members,
help in creating conditions for permanent care of clients,
professional trainings for performance of agent and advise activities through authorized system of continuous education,
supervision and the solution system of the disputes between our members and their clients arising in the course of providing financial agent services to avoid legal proceedings and settle the disputes by out-of court agreements,
the register of agents to meet the requirements of information obligations of agents to supervisory body.

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