NLB Group

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NLB Group
Industry Financial services
Founded1994;30 years ago (1994)
Headquarters,
Slovenia
Area served
South Eastern Europe
Key people
Management Board of NLB d.d. [1] [2] [3] [4]
  • Blaž Brodnjak (CEO)
  • Antonio Argir
  • Andreas Burkhardt
  • Archibald Kremser
  • Andrej Lasič
  • Hedvika Usenik
Products Retail banking, commercial banking, investment, private banking, asset management, insurance,
Increase2.svg €1,093.3 million (2023) [5]
Increase2.svg €550.7 million (2023) [5]
Total assets Increase2.svg €25,9 billion (2023) [5]
Number of employees
7,982 [6]
Website www.nlbgroup.si

NLB Group is the largest banking and financial group in Slovenia, with the core of its activity being in Southeast Europe. [7]

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NLB has been designated as a Significant Institution since the entry into force of European Banking Supervision in late 2014, and as a consequence is directly supervised by the European Central Bank. [8] [9]

History

Banking members of NLB Group cover markets with a population of approximately 17.4 million people. In addition to NLB d.d., a main entity in Slovenia, NLB Group comprises several subsidiary banks in Southeast Europe: NLB Banka Skopje, NLB Banka Sarajevo, NLB Banka Banja Luka, NLB Banka Prishtina, NLB Komercijalna banka, NLB Banka Podgorica, [10] [11] several companies for ancillary services (asset management, leasing, real estate management etc.) and a limited number of non-core subsidiaries controlled wind-down.

NLB d.d. is as of 14 November 2018 a publicly listed company [12] owned by a diversified investor base and whose largest shareholder is the Republic of Slovenia with a 25% plus one share. With the acquisition of the Serbian Komercijalna banka in December 2020, [13] the Group further strengthened its strategic and systemic position in the region and now holds a top 3 position in six out of seven markets where it has a banking presence.[ citation needed ]

In March 2022, the EU unit of Sberbank went into insolvency due to the EU sanctions in reaction to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Single Resolution Board decided to transfer all shares of the Sberbank's Slovenian subsidiary, later renamed to N Banka, to NLB. On the 2 March, NLB officially bought the local unit of Sberbank, thus increasing its assets by approximately 1.0 billion euros. [14] In September 2023 operational merger of N Banka to NLB was successfully completed. [15]

NLB Group performed strongly in the full year 2023 with EUR 550.7 million of result after tax. The results enable NLB to significantly increase dividend payments to 40% pay-out ratio of previous years’ profit after tax, which in 2024 translates to EUR 220 million in dividends. This represents a 100% increase from dividend payments made in 2023. [5]

In the first quarter of 2024, NLB Group achieved EUR 140.0 million of result after tax. [16]

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