The SKB Group consists of SKB Banka d.d. Ljubljana (SKB) as the controlling company and the subsidiary SKB Leasing d.o.o. In 2001, SKB joined the Société Générale Group, one of the leading banking groups in the Eurozone, with a successful track record of acquiring retail banks in Central and Eastern Europe.

SKB is a universal bank providing retail, commercial, investment and international banking services, either directly or by offering the products of its parent bank. It has an extensive network of 57 outlets throughout the country and correspondent relationships with over  1,000 banks around the world. The Bank (excluding its subsidiary SKB Leasing) employed 909 staff members at the end of 2007.

The company SKB Leasing complements the Group's banking offer with financial and operating leasing services. At the end of 2007, it employed 44 staff members.

SKB's network in Slovenia

Société Générale's web site: www.socgen.com

SKB's shareholders

The bank was established in 1978 as Stanovanjsko-Komunalna Banka, a mortgage subsidiary of Ljubljanska Banka, specialising in housing loans to individuals and enterprises and the financing of municipal construction. Independence of the bank followed in 1990 with the transformation to a joint-stock company, an abbreviation of the name to SKB Banka (SKB), and the formation of a new strategy as a general commercial bank.