NLB InterFinanz AG is a 100% owned subsidiary of the largest Slovene bank, Nova Ljubljanska banka d.d., Ljubljana (NLB d.d.) and thus member of Nova Ljubljanska banka Group. The company has been established in 1989 in Zurich, Europe’s second largest forfait market, where it has been operating ever since.

Nova Ljubljanska banka Group (‘the Group’ or ‘NLB Group’) is the strongest financial and banking group in Slovenia with dominant market shares in the retail and corporate segments. The Group includes 48 institutions operating in 16 countries, with banks located in Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany and Bulgaria and financial companies, which provide para-banking services such as leasing, factoring, bank assurance, mutual fund management and forfaiting.

Nova Ljubljanska banka d. d., Ljubljana is the largest and most important financial institution in NLB Group (Aprox. 79% of the consolidated Group assets).

The Bank traces its origins back to the 19th century when the City Savings Bank in Ljubljana was founded in 1889. Under its present charter NLB was established by a legislative act of the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia on 27 July 1994.

Funding to NLB InterFinanz
NLB continues to fully support NLBI’s operations by directly providing financial resources to the Company in terms of capital participation and readily available money market lines, as well as through the issuance of letters of comfort (awareness), which are provided to NLBI’s counterparties in European capital markets.

Reporting and risk compliance of NLB InterFinanz to NLB
NLBI utilises risk management expertise provided by NLB risk management departments in compliance with stringent provisioning requirements of the central banking government authority in Slovenia, the Central Bank of Slovenia. Beside this it reports all parameters of its operation on monthly and quarterly basis to the respective departments of Nova Ljubljanska banka.