Slavenska Banka
The Slavenska Banka (), founded in 1918 as National Bank () and renamed in 1921, was a bank in Zagreb. It played a prominent role in the history of Croatian and Slovenian banking in the early 1920s, before going into bankruptcy in 1925. History The National Bank was established by a group of Zagreb-based individuals on , as the collapse of Austria-Hungary looked increasingly likely, with a view that it might become the central bank for a future autonomous or independent Croatia. In 1920 it took over the small savings bank , which had been founded in nearby Kotari in 1911 and relocated to Zagreb in 1915. On , an Act on the National Bank granted it the privilege of issuing banknotes, and it was to take over the former branches of the Austro-Hungarian Bank in Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia. This, however, placed it in direct competition with the National Bank of the Kingdom of Serbia as monetary authority of the newly formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. A compromise was quickly negotiated that repurposed the National Bank in Zagreb as a commercial bank; the Belgrade-based National Bank changed its name to National Bank of the Kingdom of Serbs,