As a consequence of the latter transaction, the Slavenska Banka gained a significant footprint in Slovenia and entered a business relationship with the Paris-based Banque des Pays de l'Europe Centrale, which subsequently invested in its capital.
[1]: 159 By 1924, it had branches in Belgrade, Bjelovar, Slavonski Brod, Celje, Dubrovnik, Gornja Radgona, Kranj, Ljubljana, Maribor, Murska Sobota, Novi Sad, Osijek, Sarajevo, Sombor, Sušak, Šabac, Šibenik, and Vršac, as well as affiliates in Ljubljana and Split and a foreign branch in Vienna.
[1] The Belgrade-based National Bank, however, remained wary of the continued existence of a potential Croatian rival, which led to its bankruptcy in 1925 and later liquidation.
[4]: 160 The opulent head office building was purchased in 1928 by the State Mortgage Bank of Yugoslavia, which relocated its Zagreb branch there from its previous address at Ilica 12.
[5]: 58 The head office building that was commissioned by Slavenska Banka in 1921 and completed in 1923 counts among the significant works of architect Hugo Ehrlich.