[2]: 219 It was nationalized in 1947–1949, together with the rest of the Hungarian banking sector.
[3] In 1881, it received further investment from a group of investors formed by Vienna's Unionbank and France's Société Générale and Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas.
The bank was long led by Hungarian statesman Kálmán Széll.
[4]: 192 Its chairman and CEO from 1918 to 1925 was Gyula Madarassy-Beck [hu].
Its managing director from 1937 to 1944 was Imre Oltványi, who would become governor of the Hungarian National Bank in the imemdiate postwar era.