Gorenjska Banka

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Gorenjska Banka is a bank in Slovenia, headquartered in Kranj and established in 1996 as a self-standing credit institution.

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Following a few years during which the National Bank of Yugoslavia was the only financial institution in the country, banks were established at the local level in 1955. [1] :3 A first municipal bank in Upper Carniola (Slovene : Gorenjska) was founded in Kranj on 25 May 1955. It was soon followed by other banks in Škofja Loka, Radovljica, Tržič and Bled. These were then reorganized into a joint bank which in 1972 became part of the Ljubljana Bank system. On 27 December 1989, it was transformed into a limited company in the system of the sister banks of Ljubljana Bank. A process of separation from the Ljubljana Bank group started in 1994 and led to Gorenjska Banka becoming an independent institution in 1996. [2] :18 By 2011 the Sava Group, a Slovenian conglomerate, held a controlling stake of 46 percent in Gorenjska Banka. [3]

In 2015, the Bank of Slovenia determined that the Sava Group was too financially vulnerable to be an appropriate owner of the bank. [4] [5] In 2016, Serbian bank AIK Banka acquired a 21 percent stake in Gorenjska Banka, and raised it to 76 percent in 2018 by buying out Sava's stake and other shareholders. [6]

Gorenjska Banka subsequently became a full subsidiary of Agri Europe Cyprus Limited (est.2011), [7] the holding entity of a privately owned conglomerate led by Serbian businessman Miodrag Kostić with activities in south-eastern Europe and Ukraine. [8] As a consequence, Gorenjska Banka became a sister company to AIK Banka, which is also controlled by Agri Europe. [9] In 2020, Agri Europe Cyprus Limited has been designated as a Significant Institution under European Banking Supervision, and therefore Gorenjska Banka has been directly supervised by the European Central Bank since 1 January 2021. [10] :101

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Notes

  1. Predrag Četković (September 2015), The Role of Banks in Economic Development in the Former SFR Yugoslavia, Vienna: Wiener Institut für Internationale Wirtschaftsvergleiche
  2. Gorenjska Banka - Annual Report 2022 (PDF)
  3. Business operations of the Sava Group and Sava d.d. in the period January-June 2011
  4. Beata Fojcik (20 October 2017). "Report: Gorenjska Banka's shareholder fined for failing to sell its stake". S&P Global Market Intelligence.
  5. "Sava to sell its stake in Gorenjska Banka to Serbia's AIK". Reuters. 13 December 2017.
  6. Maja Garaca (30 January 2018). "Slovenia's Sava shareholders approve sale of Gorenjska banka to Serbia's AIK". SeeNews.
  7. Agri Europe Cyprus Limited, Cyprus: Consolidated Financial Statements For the Year Ended December 31, 2019 (PDF), p. 3
  8. Svitlana Pyrkalo (7 February 2017). "EBRD exits investment in Agri Europe". European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
  9. "Fitch Affirms Gorenjska Banka at 'BB-'; Outlook Stable". Fitch Ratings. 17 March 2023.
  10. "List of supervised entities" (PDF). European Central Bank. 28 December 2020.


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