Croatian Discount Bank

[1]: 90  It merged in 1928 with the Croatian-Slavonian Land Mortgage Bank (Croatian: Hrvatsko-slavonska zemaljska hipotekarna banka, est.

It was granted a monopoly over mortgage operations and, by an act of the Croatian Parliament in 1894, the management of funds of all autonomous administrative bodies, which gave it a significant competitive advantage.

[1]: 131  In the 1920s, it was recapitalized by new domestic and foreign investors including Belgium's Solvay Group, the Berlin-based Disconto-Gesellschaft, Vienna-based Ephrussi and Company, and London-based Lazard Brothers.

[4]: 44  The bank commissioned a modern Belgrade head office from architect Hugo Ehrlich, which was completed in 1930 and represents a significant landmark of architectural modernism in Yugoslavia;[6] its executive management, however, remained in Zagreb.

In 1940, equity control of the Yugoslav United Bank was acquired by a group of Croatian investors.

Former Head office on Ilica Street , Zagreb ; later seat of the Croatian Bureau of Statistics
Former head office of the Croatian-Slavonian Land Mortgage Bank on Nikola Šubić Zrinski Square in Zagreb, from 1928 head office of Yugoslav United Bank, [ 1 ] : 165 and later the seat of the Croatian Foreign Ministry