December 2017 – CFBF Director, Craig McIvor announced today the hiring of Mr. Tomas Kvapil, who will take up his responsibilities as the Manager of the Secretariat function of the Czech Financial Benchmark Facility. . The Czech Financial Benchmark Facility is the benchmark administrator of the PRIBOR benchmark, a key financial benchmark in the Czech Republic and globally by finance professionals.
Mr. Kvapil was previously with the Czech National Bank and CFO for Czech Airlines as well as Chairman of the Czech ACI. Mr. Kvapil said that he was looking forward to the new role and using his market relationships and market knowledge to assist in obtaining registration and authorisation for PRIBOR under the new BMR regulations.