Zagrebačka banka

Zagrebačka banka d.d.
Company typePublic
ZSE: ZABA
ISINHRZABARA0009 Edit this on Wikidata
Industrybanking, financial services
PredecessorCity Savings Bank of Zagreb
Founded1977 in Zagreb
Headquarters
Trg bana Josipa Jelačića 10 [1]
,
Croatia
Area served
Croatia, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (UniCredit Bank d.d. Mostar)
Key people
Romeo Collina (CEO), Dalibor Ćubela, Lorenzo Ramajola, Marco Lotteri, Slaven Rukavina, Spas Vidarkinsky
Servicesbanking services, investment banking, corporate banking, banking for natural persons, asset management
Total assetsHRK 123.724 million [1]
Total equityHRK 18.178 million [1]
Number of employees
4,200 (2020)
ParentUniCredit
SubsidiariesUniCredit Bank d.d. Mostar, UniCredit Invest BH d.o.o. Mostar, ZB Invest d.o.o., Pominvest d.d., ZANE d.o.o., ZANE BH d.o.o., ZABA Partner d.o.o., UniCredit Leasing Croatia d.o.o., UniCredit Leasing d.o.o. Sarajevo, Locat Croatia d.o.o., BACAL ALPHA d.o.o., ALLIB NEKRETNINE d.o.o., Allianz ZB d.o.o. (compulsory pension fund management company), Allianz ZB d.o.o. (voluntary pension fund management company), MultiPlus Card d.o.o. Zagreb, UniCredit Broker d.o.o. Zagreb, UniCredit Broker d.o.o. Sarajevo
WebsiteCroatia : www.zaba.hr FBiH : www.unicredit.ba

Zagrebačka banka d.d. is the largest bank in Croatia, owned by Milan-based UniCredit.

Overview

Zagrebačka banka was formed in 1977, intended to provide loans for local companies, taking over some former assets and operations including from the City Savings Bank of Zagreb. In the late 1980s these were merged again to form the very first banking joint stock company in the former SFR Yugoslavia.[2]

It was the first Croatian bank to become fully privatised in 1989 and the first one to be listed at the Zagreb Stock Exchange in 1995. In March 2002, ZABA was acquired by the UniCredit Group of Italy. As the country's largest bank, its assets account for 25 percent of total assets in the Croatian banking sector, and its services are used by 80,000 businesses and 1.1 million citizens. It remains one of 24 companies included in the CROBEX share index.[3]

Controversies

Zagrebačka Banka was an employer to Ankica Lepej (1948 – 2022) the first prominent whistleblower in modern Croatian history, who uncovered a secret bank account and funds of the wife of the Croatian president Franjo Tuđman.[4] Bank originally offered a million-kuna reward in Jutarnji list for any info on the whistleblower. Lepej presented herself with a lawyer and, subsequently, got fired by the bank (with only 11 months left to retirement) and arrested. The charges were eventually dropped, after Franjo Tuđman's death.[5][6]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "Annual Report 2013" (PDF). Zagrebačka banka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 April 2014. Retrieved 14 April 2014.
  2. ^ Lukić, Zoran (2017-12-30). "The art of company financial modelling". Croatian Operational Research Review. 8 (2): 409–427. doi:10.17535/crorr.2017.0026. ISSN 1848-0225.
  3. ^ "Indeksi" (in Croatian). Zagreb Stock Exchange. 2009-03-20. Retrieved 2009-03-24.
  4. ^ "Croatian Who Blew Whistle on Tudjman's Hidden Cash Dies". Balkan Insight. 19 January 2022. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
  5. ^ "Jutarnji list - Ispovijest sina Ankice Lepej: 'Bili su to teški dani, roditelji su mi ostali bez posla, prodali su i stan...'". www.jutarnji.hr (in Croatian). 18 January 2022. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
  6. ^ "Žena koju je dokrajčila istina". www.index.hr (in Croatian). Retrieved 22 January 2022.