Hrvatska Poštanska Banka
Hrvatska poštanska banka (HPB) is the largest Croatian-owned bank in Croatia and, by assets, the fifth-largest in the country, with about €7.0 billion in assets. It was founded in October 1991 by Hrvatska pošta (the Croatian postal service) and is headquartered in Zagreb at 4 Jurišićeva Street, near Ban Jelačić Square. HPB operates around 68 branches and 700 ATMs, and employed about 1,750 people at the end of 2023. The Croatian government has been the main owner since 2001, through the Croatian Privatization Fund and the Croatian Pension Insurance Institute. HPB is listed on the Zagreb Stock Exchange.
The bank offers consumer and corporate banking, insurance, investment banking, mortgages, private banking, wealth management and credit cards, and runs subsidiaries HPB Invest and HPB-Nekretnine.
Key facts: In 2019, International Banker named HPB the best commercial bank in Croatia. In 2020 HPB was designated a Significant Institution under European Banking Supervision and is supervised directly by the European Central Bank. In March 2022 HPB bought Sberbank Croatia after the European arm of Sberbank faced insolvency due to sanctions, paying 71 million kuna (about €9.4 million).
For 2023, HPB reported net income of about €80.6 million and total assets of about €7.0 billion.
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