Moravská banka, Brno (Bratislava branch)

Moravská banka (Moravian Bank), Brno, was created in 1927 by a merger of Moravská agrárna a priemyselná banka, Brno, Brnenská banka, Brno, Moravsko-slovenská banka, Olomouc, and Juhomoravská banka, Znojmo. Moravská agrárna a priemyselná banka was one of the largest Moravian banks. In 1921 its share capital reached 120 million Czechoslovak crowns (Kč). It had opened a branch in Bratislava as early as 1919 and contributed to the financing of several industrial enterprises in the Slovak paper industry when it took over the paper mills at Slavošovce and Harmanec. Moravsko-slovenská banka also opened a branch in Bratislava in 1922. After the bank merger, the two branches were also merged into one, which was called Moravská banka, Brno, Bratislava branch. For many years this branch was managed by Jozef Höck with Vladimír Ursíny as authorised signatory. The branch managed not only loans to paper mills in Slovakia but also loans for the cable factory in Bratislava.

After the establishment of the Slovak state in 1939, the branch functioned as a branch of a foreign bank in Slovakia. German-Slovak negotiations ensured that it was not liquidated and it continued to operate until March 1948. Moravská banka, Brno, was then forced to merge with Živnostenská banka, Prague. By mutual agreement, the assets and liabilities of the Bratislava branch were then taken over by Tatra banka, Martin, which soon afterwards merged with Slovenská banka, Bratislava, to create Slovenská Tatra banka, Bratislava.

Archival documents related to the activity of Moravská banka, Brno, Bratislava branch, were deposited in the corporate archive of Štátna banka československá in Marianka in 1956. In 1978, the fonds was relocated to the archive of Štátna banka československá at 27 Krajná Street in Bratislava. The fonds was relocated again, to the Národná banka Slovenska archives building at 8 Cukrová Street in Bratislava, in 2003.