Investbanka was established on as part of the restructuring of the
Yugoslav Investment Bank (YIB) and
Beogradska Banka. The latter, renamed Udružena Beogradska Banka (UBB), became one of nine so-called associated banks that formed the backbone of the commercial banking sector in Yugoslavia (together with
Jugobanka in Belgrade,
Vojvođanska Banka in Novi Sad,
Kosovska Banka in Pristina,
United Bank of Croatia in Zagreb,
Ljubljanska Banka,
Privredna Banka Sarajevo,
Stopanska Banka in Skopje, and
Investment Bank Titograd). Investbanka became an affiliate of the UBB Group, and took over many of the YIB's former operations. In its early years of activity, it was a major source of credit in the
Socialist Republic of Serbia. As the YIB had done in earlier years, Investbanka promoted itself as the continuating entity of
Uprava Fondova and the
State Mortgage Bank of Yugoslavia, even though there was a discontinuity of that legacy (however construed) during Yugoslavia
monobank era of the 1950s. On , in the context of reforms led by Yugoslav prime minister
Ante Marković, Investbanka was separated from the UBB cluster and became an independent bank, with head office in Serbia and branches in the other Yugoslav republics. as public confidence in those banks had effectively evaporated. The liquidation proceedings were still ongoing by 2015. ==Head office==