Trade & Corporate Banking Correspondent, Czech Business Review
Klára Dvořáková covers Czech exporters, corporate banking and the financial conditions facing companies trading across Central Europe.
Her beat follows export demand, bank lending, working capital and cross-border business exposure, using CNB, trade statistics and company evidence rather than broad company-news coverage.
Klára's generalist brief makes her useful on stories where company performance, trade and finance overlap. She tends to start with the operating evidence, including company disclosures, banking data, trade figures and official releases, then works outward to the broader business consequence rather than forcing a single-sector explanation onto a mixed story.
That approach is particularly important in an open economy such as Czechia, where a change in German demand, bank credit or cross-border supply chains can matter as much as a domestic policy announcement. Klára's coverage keeps those external links visible while remaining disciplined about which figures describe Czech companies and which describe the wider European market.
Keboola grew from a small Prague software project into an international data operations platform, spending years building customers before taking major institutional capital.
Apify began as a developer tool for web crawling, returned to Prague after Y Combinator Fellowship and later rebuilt around a marketplace of web-data tools. AI agents have made that infrastructure newly strategic.
ThreatMark was founded in Brno in 2015 by ethical hackers Michal Tresner and Kryštof Hilar. It has grown into a banking fraud-prevention company using behavioural, device and transaction intelligence.
A practical guide to Czech employer payroll costs in 2026, including 24.8% standard employer social insurance and 9% employer health insurance.
A guide to Czech employee payroll income tax in 2026, including the 15% monthly rate and 23% rate above the three-times-average-wage threshold.
A practical guide to Czech dividend taxation in 2026, including the 15% domestic baseline and why corporate-shareholder exemptions and tax treaties must be checked separately.
A practical guide to the Czech research and development tax deduction in 2026, including the new deduction-unit framework and the extended five-period utilisation window.
A guide to Czech employer reporting changes in 2026, including JMHZ, the end of separate tax-employer registration and the new foreign-worker notification process.
The story of Mews from Richard Valtr's 2012 founding in Prague to a global hospitality technology company used by thousands of hotels.
A guide to Prague's startup ecosystem, major Czech-founded technology companies, funding networks and the reasons the capital dominates Czech startup activity.
Czech banking-sector assets reached CZK 11.98 trillion in May 2026, according to Czech National Bank banking statistics.
Czech high-tech goods exports reached CZK 570.5 billion in 2025. Germany was the largest destination, followed by Slovakia, the Netherlands and the US among major markets.