Slovak Investment Holding Offers AKI SR Members Support in Financing Resilience

19. januára 2026

New legislative amendments in the area of critical infrastructure in the form of the Critical Infrastructure Act, which came into effect on January 1, 2025, bring new requirements for critical entities regarding risk management, ensuring essential services, and increasing the resilience of critical infrastructure.

In practice, fulfilling these obligations often requires significant investments and increased operational costs, which have a direct impact on the functioning of entities operating in critical infrastructure sectors. The question of availability of suitable financial instruments therefore becomes one of the key topics to which the Critical Infrastructure Association of the Slovak Republic pays extraordinarily great attention for the benefit of its members.

In this context, a working meeting of AKI SR with the General Director and Chairman of the Board of Slovak Investment Holding, Peter Fröhlich, took place on January 15, 2026, during which possibilities for support and financing of projects aimed at ensuring essential services and increasing the resilience of critical entities were discussed. Peter Dittrich, Vice Chairman of the Board, Miloš Ješko, Member of the Board, and Juraj Jusko, Director for Direct Investments, also participated in the meeting on behalf of Slovak Investment Holding. AKI SR was represented at the meeting by President Tibor Straka, General Director of Decent Cybersecurity s.r.o. Matej Michalko, Board Member of 3IPK, a.s. Juraj Zámečník, and Executive Director of AKI SR Stella Bulejková.

The negotiations confirmed that there is significant scope for critical infrastructure to utilize the financial instruments that Slovak Investment Holding provides. These instruments can be effectively used particularly for investments in cybersecurity, infrastructure modernization, projects focused on crisis preparedness, business continuity, and innovative solutions.

Slovak Investment Holding has a wide portfolio of support instruments, which include preferential loans, convertible loans, guarantees, equity financing, as well as combined financial instruments linking public and private sources. Particularly attractive are instruments where, in justified cases, it is possible to achieve forgiveness of up to 30% of the principal or a combination of repayable and partially non-repayable forms of support.

At the meeting, Slovak Investment Holding and AKI SR agreed on closer, regular, and long-term cooperation. The goal of this cooperation will be better information for AKI SR members, identification of suitable projects, and professional support in their preparation and implementation. The negotiations confirmed that there is a common language between both institutions, mutual interest, and clearly defined benefits that can in practice bring significant support to AKI SR members in managing current and future challenges. 

AKI SR considers the availability of financial resources as a key prerequisite for ensuring essential services and systematically increasing the resilience of its members. For this reason, it will continue negotiations with banking and financial institutions with the aim of identifying additional possibilities for preferential financing and practical assistance for its members.

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