Tatra Banka

Tatra Banka:

• Today, the name of one of the most important current banks in Slovakia (Member of the Austrian RZB Group founded 1991)

• Historically the name of the first bank in Slovakia (but not the first bank in Slovakia)

The historical Tatra Bank has been called the " Horno Uhorska Tatra banka " (Upper Hungarian Bank Tatras) in the town of Martin, founded in 1885 by the Slovak entrepreneur Rudolf Krupec. One of the first shareholders included some well-known to this day Slovak personalities ( Janko Jesenský - lawyer and writer, Gustav Zechenter - Laskomerský - physician and writer, Matus Dula - lawyer and politician, etc.). It granted loans especially to Slovak companies.

After 1918 ( founding of Czechoslovakia ), the Bank was the largest Slovak bank, whose group also included hotels and cinemas. In 1920 she was renamed after a merger with the bank in Martin in " Tatra Banka ".

1945 it was nationalized. In 1946 she became the second largest bank in Slovakia, the " Slovenská banka " merged to " Slovenská Tatra Banka ". This new bank was then until 1950 the only bank in Slovakia.

In 1950, she was in communist Czechoslovakia from then on only part of the bank in the country, the Státní banka Československé ( Slow Štátna banka Československé ). Legally, never went out, Slovenská Tatra Banka but, she was just " retired ".

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