title: Croatia Payments Regulation Monitor | World Payments Monitor canonical: https://payments.gi/jurisdictions/croatia/ date_modified: 2026-10-21 publisher: Asymmetric Intelligence # Croatia HR schema world-payments-v1 trajectory: not yet assessed Last updated 2026-10-21 · 14 modules · 70 sourced findings · 156 sources in the cumulative register 14 Modules baseline.modules[] 70 Findings modules[].findings[] 67 Tier-1 sources run_metadata.t1_source_count Confidence mix (sums to 14 rendered modules; click to filter) No modules moved this cycle. ** Law made at European Economic Area level** that applies in Croatia is covered once, on the [European Economic Area](https://payments.gi/jurisdictions/european-economic-area/) page. This page covers Croatia’s own layer: implementation, national authorities, national options and local enforcement. ## Jurisdiction brief ###### Latest update · 19 October 2026 #### Lead Signal Croatia's banking sector saw a consolidation milestone complete this cycle as Hrvatska postanska banka (HPB) finalised its merger by acquisition of Croatia Banka, with Hrvatska narodna banka (HNB) issuing final merger-by-acquisition approval on 30 September 2026. The transaction, a EUR 15 million acquisition of 100 percent of Croatia Banka from the Croatian Deposit Insurance Agency, had been signed on 4 March 2026 and proceeded through clearance from the Croatian Competition Agency (AZTN) in Phase I, a qualifying-holding approval from the European Central Bank, and closing of the purchase on 1 September 2026 ahead of HNB's final sign-off. This is a confirmed, fully documented structural event in Croatia's payment-services-adjacent banking landscape: a domestic bank absorbing a smaller peer through the complete multi-regulator approval pathway typical of EU-supervised bank mergers. The transaction is notable less for its scale than for what it signals about industry structure: continued consolidation among smaller Croatian lenders, proceeding through an orderly and fully cleared regulatory process rather than ad hoc restructuring. #### Other Developments **The commercial-intelligence record for Croatia this cycle is anchored entirely to the HPB/Croatia Banka transaction.** As the principal commercial event identified, it is confirmed across HPB's own issuer disclosures and the associated Zagreb Stock Exchange filing, with amount, parties, and regulatory-review stages all disclosed. No other Croatia-specific M&A, funding round, or product launch was identified this cycle. #### Cross-Monitor Connections The same underlying HPB/Croatia Banka transaction is tracked by the Financial Integrity Monitor as a commercial-activity development, reflecting the shared evidentiary basis (HPB issuer disclosures, AZTN/ECB/HNB clearance chain) viewed there through a financial-integrity lens rather than a payments-industry-structure lens. No other cross-monitor linkage was identified for Croatia this cycle. #### Outlook With every stage of the HPB/Croatia Banka approval chain now complete, subsequent developments relating to this transaction would most likely surface as post-merger integration reporting rather than further regulatory milestones. No other payments-sector structural development was identified for Croatia this cycle across licensing, stablecoin, resilience, scheme, corridor, legal, merchant-acquiring, product, consumer-protection, AML/CFT, or correspondent-banking tracks. _3 earlier updates not shown here._ ###### Standing brief · as of 6 August 2026 _Written before the update above. Where they differ, the update is the more recent position._ #### Lead Signal Croatian payment service providers have completed compliance with the EU Instant Payments Regulation, with the mandatory obligation to send SEPA Instant Credit Transfers taking effect on 9 October 2025, following the receive-side obligation that began on 9 January 2025, alongside mandatory daily sanctions-list screening of client databases. This compliance milestone rests on infrastructure built during Croatia's migration onto the Eurosystem's TIPS platform: EuroNCSInst, the FINA-operated instant payment system, achieved full SCT Inst implementation via TIPS access on 24 June 2023, with seven Croatian banks reachable in TIPS at migration. Together these developments place Croatia among the jurisdictions that have fully operationalised the EU's instant-payments mandate on both the receiving and sending sides. #### Other Developments Croatia's licensing architecture for non-bank payment and e-money firms remains anchored in the Payment System Act, under which the Croatian National Bank (HNB) is the sole competent authority for payment institutions, small payment institutions, electronic money institutions and small EMIs, deciding authorisation via administrative procedure and maintaining a public register. A separate, more limited registration track exists for small payment institutions and small e-money institutions, restricted to Croatian-territory-only service provision. Minimum capital requirements for full payment-institution authorisation are assessed to range from approximately EUR 20,000 to EUR 125,000 depending on the services provided, with electronic money institutions separately authorised under the Electronic Money Act; this capital-band figure comes from a secondary source, as no Tier-1 primary EU or HNB source for the exact bands was retrieved this cycle. At the EU level, the Payment Services Directive 3 (PSD3) and accompanying Payment Services Regulation (PSR) reached provisional political agreement on 27 November 2025. The PSR will apply directly across the EU without national transposition, while PSD3 requires Member States to transpose within 18 months of entry into force; application is expected from around early 2028. Separately, the ECB has selected 36 payment service providers to join its digital euro pilot, a Eurosystem-level development that HNB is tracking as part of broader payments-modernisation integration, though no Croatia-specific selection detail has been identified. On the commercial-ecosystem side, the Money Motion 2026 fintech, payments and AI industry summit is scheduled for 11-12 March 2026 in Zagreb, positioned as a leading Central and Eastern European fintech gathering. #### Cross-Monitor Connections No cross-monitor linkages were flagged this cycle. Coverage in the AML/CFT module, which draws on the Sentinel.gi feed, and in the correspondent-banking and merchant-acquiring modules, did not surface material Croatia-specific content this cycle. #### Outlook The primary forward-looking watch item for Croatian payments regulation is the PSD3/PSR transposition track: the Regulation's direct application and the Directive's 18-month national transposition window point toward Croatian implementation activity through 2027 ahead of an expected early-2028 application date, though the precise Croatian timeline remains only secondary-sourced at this stage. With PSD2 licensing fully transposed and Instant Payments Regulation compliance complete on both receive and send sides, Croatia's near-term payments-regulatory posture is stable and EU-aligned, with no near-term compliance-gap risk identified; the PSD3/PSR reform track is the item to watch for material change in coming cycles. trust tier: ai_unverified _Standing brief, as of 6 August 2026._ #### Regulatory Status Croatia presents a stable, EU-aligned payments-regulatory posture. The Croatian National Bank (HNB) is the sole competent authority for payment institutions, small payment institutions, electronic money institutions and small EMIs under the Payment System Act, operating alongside a separate restricted registration track for small payment and e-money institutions serving the domestic market only. On the infrastructure side, Croatia completed its migration onto the Eurosystem's TIPS platform on 24 June 2023 and has since fully complied with the EU Instant Payments Regulation, with the receive obligation live from 9 January 2025 and the send obligation live from 9 October 2025, backed by mandatory daily sanctions-list screening of client databases. #### Outlook The principal forward item for Croatia is the EU's PSD3/PSR reform package, which reached provisional political agreement on 27 November 2025; the Regulation applies directly while the Directive requires national transposition within 18 months of entry into force, with application expected around early 2028 and Croatian transposition activity anticipated through 2027. No other near-term compliance gaps are identified for this jurisdiction. 14 of 14 modules Signal Density Selections OR within a group, AND across groups. Press / to search. ### W1a Licensing, Authorisation & Market Access Confirmed confirmed 2026-07-04 Croatia operates a fully-transposed PSD2 licensing regime under the Payment System Act, with HNB as sole competent authority; PSD3/PSR reached provisional political agreement 27 Nov 2025, expected application ~early 2028. Standing sub-brief · as of 6 August 2026 248 words · last cycle 2026-09-14 #### Licensing, Authorisation & Market Access Croatia's payment and e-money licensing regime is fully established under the Payment System Act, with the Croatian National Bank (HNB) as the sole competent authority for payment institutions, small payment institutions, electronic money institutions and small EMIs. HNB decides authorisation via administrative procedure and maintains a public register of authorised entities. Alongside full authorisation, a separate small-payment-institution and small-e-money-institution registration track applies under Article 4(3)-(6), restricted to providers offering services solely within Croatian territory. Minimum capital requirements for full payment-institution authorisation are assessed at approximately EUR 20,000 to EUR 125,000 depending on the services offered, with electronic money institutions separately authorised and capitalised under the Electronic Money Act (Art. 16/17); this banding derives from a secondary source rather than a Tier-1 primary text retrieved this cycle. These non-bank thresholds sit alongside, and are structurally distinct from, the prudential regime applied to licensed banks offering payment services in Croatia. The EU's PSD3/PSR reform package reached provisional political agreement on 27 November 2025. The Regulation will apply directly across the EU without national transposition, while the Directive requires Member States, including Croatia, to transpose within 18 months of entry into force; application is expected from around early 2028. #### Outlook Croatia's national transposition of PSD3 is expected to fall due around 2027, ahead of the roughly early-2028 application window for the Regulation. No Tier-1 primary EU source for the exact provisional-agreement timeline was retrieved this cycle, so this remains a secondary-sourced watch item pending firmer confirmation. Periodic update · new data 2026-09-14 #### Licensing, Authorisation & Market Access Croatia's payment-services and e-money licensing regime is administered by the Croatian National Bank (HNB), which authorises legal persons seeking to provide payment services under the Payment System Act, Article 85, and separately authorises e-money issuance under the Electronic Money Act. This framework transposes PSD2 and has formed the standing basis for market access since 2018, giving Croatia an established, EU-harmonised entry pathway for both bank and non-bank payment service providers. The bank-PSP versus non-bank payment-institution and e-money-institution distinction is embedded in the framework's structure: banks operate under their general banking licence for payment services, while non-bank payment institutions and electronic money institutions require the specific HNB authorisation under the respective Acts, a distinction that shapes prudential requirements, capital thresholds, and ongoing supervisory obligations differently across the two tracks. The forward-looking development this cycle is the progress of PSD3 and the accompanying Payment Services Regulation, which reached provisional political agreement at the EU level in November 2025 and are proceeding through the EU's adoption process during 2026. Once finalised, this package will repeal and replace both PSD2 and the Electronic Money Directive, meaning Croatia's current licensing architecture, built around the Payment System Act and Electronic Money Act as PSD2/EMD transpositions, will need to be revisited. Because the Payment Services Regulation is directly applicable EU law rather than a directive requiring transposition, its provisions will take effect in Croatia without domestic implementing legislation for the Regulation's own scope, while PSD3 itself, as a directive, will still require national transposition; this dual instrument structure is a meaningful point for market-access planning, since the two components of the same reform package will enter into force in Croatia through different legal mechanisms. This is assessed as probable, sourced from EU-level legal commentary tracking the PSD3/PSR negotiation, with an estimated impact date in the fourth quarter of 2026 and a half-year uncertainty band reflecting the ongoing nature of the EU adoption process at time of writing. #### Outlook The principal item to watch is the finalisation timeline for PSD3 and the Payment Services Regulation at the EU level, and the specific transposition and direct-application steps HNB and the Croatian legislature will need to take once the texts are adopted. Firms currently licensed under the Payment System Act and Electronic Money Act should anticipate a licensing-framework transition process once the new EU texts enter into force, though the specific domestic implementing steps for Croatia have not yet been detailed in available sourcing. **Sources and findings (7)** 1. T1 [https://www.hnb.hr/en/-/zakon-o-platnom-prometu](https://www.hnb.hr/en/-/zakon-o-platnom-prometu) 2. T1 [https://www.hnb.hr/en/core-functions/payment-system/licensing/payment-institutions](https://www.hnb.hr/en/core-functions/payment-system/licensing/payment-institutions) retrieved 2026-07-04 3. T1 [https://www.hnb.hr/en/-/small-payment-institutions](https://www.hnb.hr/en/-/small-payment-institutions) 4. T1 [https://www.hnb.hr/en/core-functions/payment-system/licensing/electronic-money-institutions](https://www.hnb.hr/en/core-functions/payment-system/licensing/electronic-money-institutions) 5. T1 [https://www.hnb.hr/en/core-functions/payment-system/licensing/small-electronic-money-institutions](https://www.hnb.hr/en/core-functions/payment-system/licensing/small-electronic-money-institutions) retrieved 2026-07-04 6. T1 [https://www.hnb.hr/en/core-functions/payment-system/about-payment-system](https://www.hnb.hr/en/core-functions/payment-system/about-payment-system) retrieved 2026-07-04 7. T2 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatian_National_Bank](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatian_National_Bank) retrieved 2026-07-04 ### W1b Conduct, Safeguarding & Promotions Confirmed confirmed 2026-07-04 Safeguarding of payment service users' and e-money holders' funds is governed by a dedicated HNB Decision under Article 35/100 of the Electronic Money Act/Payment System Act, alongside a HNB-run complaints and ADR regime and consumer-protection oversight. The regime is settled and EU-harmonised (PSD2/EMD2 aligned). Absence reason not determinable No sub-brief exists and the JID records no gap or review marker explaining why. The renderer will not invent a reason. no periodic updates on record for this sub-brief ** Sources and findings (6)** 1. T1 [https://www.hnb.hr/en/core-functions/payment-system/licensing/electronic-money-institutions](https://www.hnb.hr/en/core-functions/payment-system/licensing/electronic-money-institutions) 2. T1 [https://www.hnb.hr/en/core-functions/payment-system/licensing/payment-institutions](https://www.hnb.hr/en/core-functions/payment-system/licensing/payment-institutions) retrieved 2026-07-04 3. T1 [https://www.hnb.hr/en/core-functions/payment-system/complaints](https://www.hnb.hr/en/core-functions/payment-system/complaints) 4. T1 [https://www.hnb.hr/en/about-us/consumer-protection/regulations](https://www.hnb.hr/en/about-us/consumer-protection/regulations) 5. T3 [https://stable-view-app.com/en/sto-nudimo/](https://stable-view-app.com/en/sto-nudimo/) retrieved 2026-07-04 6. T1 [https://www.hnb.hr/en/-/financial-inspectorate-of-the-republic-of-croatia-imposes-a-hrk-33m-fine-on-zagreba%C4%8Dka-banka-d.d.](https://www.hnb.hr/en/-/financial-inspectorate-of-the-republic-of-croatia-imposes-a-hrk-33m-fine-on-zagreba%C4%8Dka-banka-d.d.) ### W2 Stablecoins & Digital Money Probable confirmed 2026-07-04 Croatia implements MiCA via its own Implementation Act (12 July 2024), with HANFA as the CASP-licensing NCA (Titles II, V, VI) and HNB overseeing EMT/ART issuers (Titles III, IV). Legacy VASPs have a transition window to 1 July 2026 to obtain full CASP authorisation; the first full MiCA CASP licence (Electrocoin) was granted in April 2026. Absence reason not determinable No sub-brief exists and the JID records no gap or review marker explaining why. The renderer will not invent a reason. no periodic updates on record for this sub-brief ** Sources and findings (5)** 1. T1 [https://www.esma.europa.eu/sites/default/files/2024-12/List_of_Competent_Authorities_notified_to_ESMA_under_MiCA.pdf](https://www.esma.europa.eu/sites/default/files/2024-12/List_of_Competent_Authorities_notified_to_ESMA_under_MiCA.pdf) Applies beyond this jurisdiction (EU) 2. T1 [https://www.hanfa.hr/consumers/consumer-news/notification-for-persons-intending-to-trade-crypto-assets/](https://www.hanfa.hr/consumers/consumer-news/notification-for-persons-intending-to-trade-crypto-assets/) 3. T2 [https://www.croatiaweek.com/croatia-first-mica-crypto-licence-electrocoin/](https://www.croatiaweek.com/croatia-first-mica-crypto-licence-electrocoin/) 4. T3 [https://coincub.com/blog/crypto-licensing-croatia/](https://coincub.com/blog/crypto-licensing-croatia/) retrieved 2026-07-04 5. T3 [https://www.plasma.to/learn/tools/stablecoin-regulation-map/croatia](https://www.plasma.to/learn/tools/stablecoin-regulation-map/croatia) retrieved 2026-07-04 ### W3 Operational Resilience & Critical Infrastructure Probable confirmed 2026-07-04 DORA (Regulation (EU) 2022/2554) entered into application EU-wide from 17 January 2025, with HNB and HANFA jointly coordinating implementation for Croatian financial entities. Croatia faces above-average third-party ICT dependency and limited specialist penetration-testing/TLPT capacity relative to larger EU markets, but banking-sector DORA readiness is on par with EU peers due to group-level (parent bank) expertise. Kept on Dataprotection.gi, not restated here: data and cloud switching obligations on service providers, including notice periods and charges. [Open this jurisdiction's page on Dataprotection.gi →](https://dataprotection.gi/jurisdictions/croatia/) Absence reason not determinable No sub-brief exists and the JID records no gap or review marker explaining why. The renderer will not invent a reason. no periodic updates on record for this sub-brief ** Sources and findings (5)** 1. T1 [https://www.eiopa.europa.eu/digital-operational-resilience-act-dora_en](https://www.eiopa.europa.eu/digital-operational-resilience-act-dora_en) Applies beyond this jurisdiction (EU) 2. T1 [https://www.hnb.hr/en/core-functions/payment-system/licensing/payment-institutions](https://www.hnb.hr/en/core-functions/payment-system/licensing/payment-institutions) retrieved 2026-07-04 3. T3 [https://total-croatia-news.com/lifestyle/dora-in-croatia-vs-other-eu-countries-implementation-insights/](https://total-croatia-news.com/lifestyle/dora-in-croatia-vs-other-eu-countries-implementation-insights/) 4. T3 [https://cyberupgrade.net/blog/grc/dora-regulations-in-croatia-and-impact-for-all-industries/](https://cyberupgrade.net/blog/grc/dora-regulations-in-croatia-and-impact-for-all-industries/) retrieved 2026-07-04 5. T1 [https://www.eba.europa.eu/publications-and-media/press-releases/european-supervisory-authorities-designate-critical-ict-third-party-providers-under-digital](https://www.eba.europa.eu/publications-and-media/press-releases/european-supervisory-authorities-designate-critical-ict-third-party-providers-under-digital) retrieved 2026-07-04 ### W4 Scheme & Network Compliance Probable confirmed 2026-07-04 Card scheme compliance in Croatia follows EU interchange fee caps (Regulation (EU) 2015/751) and Visa/Mastercard scheme rules, but Croatia has historically carried above-EU-average domestic interchange fees, with Mastercard rates among the highest in Europe. SEPA instant payments (SCT Inst) are now fully live via the EuroNCSInst system. Standing sub-brief · as of 28 September 2026 287 words · last cycle 2026-09-28 #### Scheme & Network Compliance Croatia's SEPA Instant Credit Transfer implementation is now fully in effect, with the two-stage mandate structure completed on schedule. Mandatory receipt of instant credit transfers took effect 9 January 2025, and mandatory sending followed on 9 October 2025, both operated domestically through Fina's EuroNKSInst platform. Fina's own publication describes the system as enabling execution of payment transactions 24 hours a day, seven days a week, which is the core scheme-level capability the mandate was designed to guarantee across the Croatian banking sector. The completion of the send-side mandate is the more structurally significant of the two dates, since receive-side mandates typically arrive first and impose a lighter operational burden than the corresponding obligation to originate instant transfers reliably around the clock. With both sides now mandatory, Croatian payment service providers no longer have the option to treat instant credit transfer as a premium or optional product tier; it is now baseline scheme-compliance infrastructure. A security-stack requirement runs alongside the instant-payments completion: Croatian banks must perform daily checks of client databases against sanctions lists under the Restrictive Measures Act. This obligation is reported via T3 trade press corroborating an HNB-level confirmation, and its explicit framing as part of the instant-payments security stack, rather than a freestanding sanctions-screening requirement, reflects the EU-level regulatory design linking faster settlement speed to correspondingly faster and more frequent sanctions-list screening obligations for participating banks. #### Outlook With both mandate stages now complete, the scheme-compliance question shifts from rollout to operational performance: whether Croatian PSPs are meeting the underlying service-level expectations of 24/7 instant execution reliably, and whether the daily sanctions-screening cadence is holding up under real transaction volumes. No further scheme-level rule change is indicated in the current evidence set. no periodic updates on record for this sub-brief ** Sources and findings (5)** 1. T2 [https://www.aztn.hr/en/interchange-fees-in-card-payments-in-croatia-higher-than-eu-average/](https://www.aztn.hr/en/interchange-fees-in-card-payments-in-croatia-higher-than-eu-average/) 2. T3 [https://www.lendingtree.com/credit-cards/articles/na-vs-eu-interchangefees/](https://www.lendingtree.com/credit-cards/articles/na-vs-eu-interchangefees/) retrieved 2026-07-04 3. T2 [https://www.mastercard.com/europe/en/business/support/merchant-interchange-rates.html](https://www.mastercard.com/europe/en/business/support/merchant-interchange-rates.html) retrieved 2026-07-04 4. T2 [https://www.hub.hr/index.php/en/psd2-open-api](https://www.hub.hr/index.php/en/psd2-open-api) 5. T1 [https://www.hnb.hr/en/core-functions/payment-system/payment-systems/euroncsinst](https://www.hnb.hr/en/core-functions/payment-system/payment-systems/euroncsinst) ### W5 Payment Corridor Dynamics Confirmed confirmed 2026-07-04 Croatia's principal payment corridors run through SEPA/TARGET (post-euro-adoption 2023) with full instant payment (SCT Inst) receiving capability mandatory and sending capability mandatory from 9 October 2025. Cross-border settlement runs via TARGET-HR and T2S, integrated into the Eurosystem since March 2023. Standing sub-brief · as of 14 September 2026 415 words · last cycle 2026-09-21 #### Payment Corridor Dynamics Croatia's domestic payment corridor infrastructure has reached full compliance with the SEPA Instant Credit Transfer Scheme ahead of much of the broader EU timeline. FINA's EuroNKSInst system enables execution of payment transactions on a 24/7/365 basis and is confirmed as fully SCT Inst compliant. This is corroborated at high confidence directly from FINA's own published system documentation. Under the EU Instant Payments Regulation, Croatian payment service providers were required to begin accepting SEPA Instant Credit Transfers from 9 January 2025, and to begin sending them from 9 October 2025; Croatia's infrastructure readiness through EuroNKSInst positioned its PSPs to meet the send-obligation deadline without the infrastructure gaps that have challenged slower-moving national systems elsewhere in the EU. Settlement for both EuroNKS, the standard credit transfer system, and EuroNKSInst, the instant variant, is administered by FINA, with final settlement occurring in central-bank money via the TARGET and TIPS platforms. This connects Croatia's domestic retail payment corridor directly into the Eurosystem's wholesale settlement infrastructure, a structural feature that underpins the confidence with which the instant-payments compliance milestones above can be assessed; settlement finality does not rest on a purely domestic or commercial-bank-money mechanism. The most recent corridor-level development is the introduction of a mandatory recipient, or IBAN, name-verification service, which Croatian banks are now being required to implement across both instant and standard credit transfers. This control is a direct response to the fraud risk profile that instant, largely irreversible transfers introduce, requiring banks to verify that the account name provided by a payer matches the actual name on the recipient account before a transfer completes. This development is assessed as probable, sourced from Croatian business-press reporting, and represents the most operationally significant near-term change to how the corridor functions for end-user transactions. Taken together, the corridor picture for Croatia this cycle is one of infrastructure maturity: full SCT Inst compliance, direct Eurosystem settlement connectivity, and now a fraud-prevention layer being added on top of an already-compliant instant-payments base, rather than a jurisdiction still working to meet baseline instant-payments obligations. #### Outlook The key item to watch is the practical rollout timeline and technical implementation details of the new IBAN name-verification mandate across Croatian banks, including how it will be integrated into both the EuroNKS and EuroNKSInst transaction flows. Given the corridor's demonstrated infrastructure maturity and early compliance with instant-payments obligations, Croatia is well positioned to implement this additional control without the kind of infrastructure gap that might complicate rollout in less mature national payment systems. Periodic update · new data 2026-09-21 #### Payment Corridor Dynamics Croatian payment service providers now operate under the fully in-force compliance regime of the EU Instant Payments Regulation (EU) 2024/886. The mandatory-receive obligation for SEPA Instant Credit Transfers took effect on 9 January 2025, and the mandatory-send obligation took effect on 9 October 2025; both dates are now in the past, meaning Croatian PSPs are currently required to both send and receive SEPA Instant Credit Transfers, subject to a €100,000 per-transaction cap. The underlying EU regulation itself carries Confirmed confidence from a Tier-1 EUR-Lex source, though the specific Croatian transposition dates are sourced to a secondary summary and carry only Probable confidence pending independent verification against a primary Croatian transposition instrument. The regulation operates by amending, rather than replacing, the existing SEPA and payments-services legal architecture: it modifies Regulation 260/2012 (the SEPA end-date regulation), Regulation 2021/1230 (cross-border payments), Directive 98/26/EC (settlement finality) and Directive 2015/2366 (PSD2). This amend-in-place structure means Croatian PSPs' existing PSD2-derived compliance frameworks form the base onto which the instant-payments mandate has been layered, rather than requiring an entirely separate compliance regime. Bank-PSP entities bear the direct compliance obligation under this framework; the claims evidencing this development are tagged specifically to bank-PSP entity types rather than non-bank payment institutions or e-money institutions, which is a relevant distinction for assessing which categories of Croatian payment-service provider are directly bound by the send/receive mandates versus which may access instant-payment rails only indirectly. #### Outlook With both the receive and send mandates now in force, the near-term outlook for this corridor is one of operational stabilisation rather than further regulatory change; the next material development in this space is more likely to be a usage or volume data point than a further compliance deadline. Independent verification of Croatia's specific transposition dates against a primary source would strengthen the current Probable-confidence finding to Confirmed. **Sources and findings (5)** 1. T3 [https://www.tradefinanceglobal.com/posts/sepa-instant-payments-introduced-in-croatia/](https://www.tradefinanceglobal.com/posts/sepa-instant-payments-introduced-in-croatia/) Applies beyond this jurisdiction (EU) 2. T1 [https://www.hnb.hr/en/core-functions/payment-system/payment-systems](https://www.hnb.hr/en/core-functions/payment-system/payment-systems) retrieved 2026-07-04 3. T1 [https://www.hnb.hr/en/-/target-hr](https://www.hnb.hr/en/-/target-hr) 4. T2 [https://www.europeanpaymentscouncil.eu/news-insights/insight/croatian-payment-landscape](https://www.europeanpaymentscouncil.eu/news-insights/insight/croatian-payment-landscape) retrieved 2026-07-04 5. T1 [https://www.hnb.hr/en/-/target-hr](https://www.hnb.hr/en/-/target-hr) ### W6 Industry Structure & Commercial Probable confirmed 2026-07-04 Croatia's banking sector continues domestic consolidation: HPB completed its acquisition and legal merger of Croatia Banka (CROBA), with HNB issuing final merger-by-acquisition approval on 2026-09-30. Standing sub-brief · as of 19 October 2026 357 words · last cycle 2026-10-18 #### Industry Structure & Commercial Dynamics Croatia's banking industry structure saw a consolidation event reach completion this cycle with Hrvatska postanska banka's (HPB) merger by acquisition of Croatia Banka. The transaction originated with a share-purchase agreement signed on 4 March 2026 for 100 percent of Croatia Banka at a disclosed consideration of EUR 15 million, with the Croatian Deposit Insurance Agency as seller. The regulatory pathway for the deal ran through three distinct review stages: the Croatian Competition Agency (AZTN) cleared the concentration in Phase I on competition grounds, the European Central Bank approved the associated qualifying holding as prudential supervisor for significant and less-significant institutions under the Single Supervisory Mechanism, and Hrvatska narodna banka (HNB) issued the final merger-by-acquisition approval on 30 September 2026, following the purchase's closing on 1 September 2026. Each of these stages is confirmed directly from HPB's own issuer disclosures and the corresponding Zagreb Stock Exchange filing. This sequence is a representative example of how bank-sector consolidation proceeds under the EU's layered supervisory architecture: a domestic competition authority addresses market-concentration concerns, the ECB addresses prudential fitness of the acquiring institution's ownership structure, and the national central bank retains the final merger-control sign-off specific to the banking license itself. The completion of all three stages within roughly seven months of signing indicates a transaction that proceeded without material regulatory friction or extended review, consistent with the modest scale of the target institution relative to the acquirer. For Croatia's broader industry structure, this transaction continues a pattern of consolidation among smaller domestic lenders, where larger institutions such as HPB absorb smaller peers under full regulatory oversight. No other HR-specific industry-structure or commercial-dynamics development met the materiality threshold this cycle. #### Outlook With the merger now complete at every regulatory layer, further signal relating to this transaction is most likely to take the form of integration reporting (branch network consolidation, service migration, or balance-sheet disclosures) rather than additional approval milestones. The pattern of domestic bank consolidation evidenced by this transaction may continue to be a relevant backdrop for monitoring further market-structure developments among smaller Croatian lenders, though no additional signal of this kind was identified this cycle. no periodic updates on record for this sub-brief ** Sources and findings (5)** 1. T3 [https://thefintechtimes.com/croatia-and-its-fintech-and-wider-digital-ecosystem-in-2026/](https://thefintechtimes.com/croatia-and-its-fintech-and-wider-digital-ecosystem-in-2026/) 2. T1 [https://www.hnb.hr/en/-/financial-inspectorate-of-the-republic-of-croatia-imposes-a-hrk-33m-fine-on-zagreba%C4%8Dka-banka-d.d.](https://www.hnb.hr/en/-/financial-inspectorate-of-the-republic-of-croatia-imposes-a-hrk-33m-fine-on-zagreba%C4%8Dka-banka-d.d.) 3. T3 [https://getlatka.com/companies/aircash.eu](https://getlatka.com/companies/aircash.eu) 4. T3 [https://www.corvuspay.com/en/](https://www.corvuspay.com/en/) 5. T3 [https://www.travelandtourworld.com/news/article/d2fzayu3b6qr/](https://www.travelandtourworld.com/news/article/d2fzayu3b6qr/) retrieved 2026-07-04 ### W7 Legal & Litigation Confirmed confirmed 2026-07-04 Croatia's EuroNCSInst migrated onto TIPS 24 June 2023; Croatian PSPs are fully compliant with the EU Instant Payments Regulation (receive from 9 Jan 2025, send from 9 Oct 2025). Standing sub-brief · as of 6 August 2026 149 words · last cycle 2026-08-05 #### Legal Infrastructure — Settlement Finality & Instant-Payments Plumbing Croatia's instant-payments infrastructure is fully established: EuroNCSInst, the FINA-operated instant payment system, achieved full SCT Inst implementation via TIPS access on 24 June 2023, with seven Croatian banks reachable in TIPS at migration, corroborated by the European Central Bank's own confirmation of the same migration date and named banks. Croatian payment service providers became subject to the EU Instant Payments Regulation's receive obligation from 9 January 2025 and the send obligation from 9 October 2025, with the associated requirement for mandatory daily sanctions-list screening of client databases. #### Outlook With TIPS migration and Instant Payments Regulation compliance both complete, no further instant-payments infrastructure milestones are outstanding for Croatia in the near term; ongoing Eurosystem-level developments, including the ECB's digital euro pilot for which 36 payment service providers have been selected, will be the primary items HNB continues to track under this module. no periodic updates on record for this sub-brief ** Sources and findings (4)** 1. T1 [https://www.hnb.hr/en/-/financial-inspectorate-of-the-republic-of-croatia-imposes-a-hrk-33m-fine-on-zagreba%C4%8Dka-banka-d.d.](https://www.hnb.hr/en/-/financial-inspectorate-of-the-republic-of-croatia-imposes-a-hrk-33m-fine-on-zagreba%C4%8Dka-banka-d.d.) 2. T3 [https://veritas-advisory-group.com/litigation-by-country/croatia/](https://veritas-advisory-group.com/litigation-by-country/croatia/) 3. T1 [https://www.hnb.hr/en/about-us/consumer-protection/key-information/enforcement-actions/-/asset_publisher/3e628cf108/content/id/174046](https://www.hnb.hr/en/about-us/consumer-protection/key-information/enforcement-actions/-/asset_publisher/3e628cf108/content/id/174046) retrieved 2026-07-04 4. T1 [https://www.hnb.hr/en/statistics/statistical-data/financial-sector/other-monetary-financial-institutions/credit-institutions/supervisory-indicators/supervisory-disclosure](https://www.hnb.hr/en/statistics/statistical-data/financial-sector/other-monetary-financial-institutions/credit-institutions/supervisory-indicators/supervisory-disclosure) retrieved 2026-07-04 ### W8 Merchant Acquiring & Risk Probable confirmed 2026-07-04 Merchant acquiring in Croatia follows the standard EU high-risk merchant onboarding/underwriting model (KYC/KYB, rolling reserves, Interchange++), with domestic acquiring/gateway providers such as CorvusPay serving the market alongside cross-border high-risk PSP intermediaries. No Croatia-specific chargeback or acquiring statute distinct from EU card-scheme rules and the Payment System Act was identified; the regime largely tracks EU/scheme-level chargeback and dispute frameworks. Absence reason not determinable No sub-brief exists and the JID records no gap or review marker explaining why. The renderer will not invent a reason. no periodic updates on record for this sub-brief ** Sources and findings (4)** 1. T3 [https://www.corvuspay.com/en/](https://www.corvuspay.com/en/) 2. T4 [https://quadrapay.com/payment-gateway-croatia/](https://quadrapay.com/payment-gateway-croatia/) 3. T4 [https://quadrapay.com/payment-gateway-croatia/](https://quadrapay.com/payment-gateway-croatia/) 4. T2 [https://www.aztn.hr/en/interchange-fees-in-card-payments-in-croatia-higher-than-eu-average/](https://www.aztn.hr/en/interchange-fees-in-card-payments-in-croatia-higher-than-eu-average/) ### W9 Product Innovation & Market Development Probable confirmed 2026-07-04 Croatia's product innovation is concentrated in instant payments (SCT Inst live since 2023), open banking (PSD2 XS2A APIs live via Berlin Group NextGenPSD2 standard since 2019), and crypto payment rails (Electrocoin's PayCek). No standalone regulatory sandbox distinct from EU frameworks was identified for payments specifically, though HANFA runs a broader financial-literacy simulation sandbox. Standing sub-brief · as of 22 September 2026 222 words · last cycle 2026-09-28 #### Product Innovation & Market Development The second Consumer Credit Directive (CCD2, Directive 2023/2225) is set to bring buy-now-pay-later products within a harmonised EU consumer-credit regulatory perimeter for the first time. Member States, including Croatia, faced a transposition deadline of 20 November 2025, with the substantive new obligations covering BNPL products becoming applicable from 20 November 2026. This finding carries only Uncertain confidence, resting on a single secondary source rather than a primary Croatian transposition instrument, and it is explicitly a forward-horizon item rather than a currently-in-force development. The practical significance for Croatian BNPL providers, once the 20 November 2026 applicability date is reached, is that products which may previously have operated outside a formal consumer-credit licensing and disclosure regime will need to be assessed against CCD2's harmonised standards. This represents a genuine widening of the regulatory perimeter for a product category that has historically developed ahead of dedicated regulatory coverage across much of the EU, Croatia included. #### Outlook The key near-term milestone is confirmation of whether Croatia met the 20 November 2025 transposition deadline, which was not independently verified within this cycle's evidence. Assuming transposition proceeds on the EU-wide schedule, Croatian BNPL providers should expect the new consumer-credit obligations to become applicable from 20 November 2026, and this remains the item to track most closely in this module going into that date. Periodic update · new data 2026-09-28 #### Product Innovation & Market Development Croatia's buy-now-pay-later product segment faces a significant incoming regulatory obligation as the second Consumer Credit Directive, CCD2, extends into force for BNPL providers from 20 November 2026. Under CCD2, BNPL providers will be required to conduct creditworthiness assessments before extending credit, a requirement that BNPL products have often operated without in their earlier commercial form. The directive's coverage also extends to loans of up to EUR 100,000, a considerably broader scope than BNPL products have traditionally been associated with, and mandates disclosure that is compliant with annual percentage rate presentation standards. This obligation is reported from limited T4 sourcing, and no Croatia-specific transposition instrument implementing CCD2 into national law was directly retrieved this cycle; the finding should therefore be read as probable rather than confirmed pending a primary legislative text. The obligation itself derives from an EU-level directive applicable across the EEA rather than from a Croatia-specific policy initiative, meaning the substance of the change is set at the supranational level even though its practical Croatian implementation date and mechanics remain to be confirmed from a primary source. For BNPL providers currently operating in the Croatian market under lighter consumer-credit obligations, or none at all, the structural effect of CCD2's arrival is to bring BNPL substantively inside the same creditworthiness-assessment and disclosure framework that has long applied to conventional consumer credit products, closing what had been a distinct light-touch regulatory treatment for point-of-sale instalment products. #### Outlook The date to track is 20 November 2026, when CCD2's BNPL-specific obligations become binding. Priority for the next reporting period is direct retrieval of Croatia's national transposition instrument for CCD2, which would allow this finding to move from Probable to Confirmed and would clarify any Croatia-specific implementation details beyond the directive's baseline EU-wide requirements. **Sources and findings (5)** 1. T2 [https://www.hub.hr/index.php/en/psd2-open-api](https://www.hub.hr/index.php/en/psd2-open-api) 2. T3 [https://www.zaba.hr/home/en/footer/psd2-open-banking](https://www.zaba.hr/home/en/footer/psd2-open-banking) retrieved 2026-07-04 3. T1 [https://www.hnb.hr/en/-/fintech-and-banks-to-cooperate-in-the-future](https://www.hnb.hr/en/-/fintech-and-banks-to-cooperate-in-the-future) retrieved 2026-07-04 4. T3 [https://thefintechtimes.com/croatia-and-its-fintech-and-wider-digital-ecosystem-in-2026/](https://thefintechtimes.com/croatia-and-its-fintech-and-wider-digital-ecosystem-in-2026/) 5. T1 [https://www.hanfa.hr/consumers/consumer-news/notification-for-persons-intending-to-trade-crypto-assets/](https://www.hanfa.hr/consumers/consumer-news/notification-for-persons-intending-to-trade-crypto-assets/) ### W10 Consumer Protection & APP Fraud Probable confirmed 2026-07-04 Consumer protection for payment service users runs through HNB's complaints and ADR mechanism under the Payment System Act and Consumer Protection Act. APP fraud reimbursement is not yet separately mandated in Croatia beyond the general EU PSD3/PSR political agreement (27 November 2025), which introduces a narrow PSP-impersonation reimbursement duty EU-wide, not yet formally adopted or transposed. Standing sub-brief · as of 28 September 2026 284 words · last cycle 2026-09-28 #### Consumer Protection & APP Fraud Croatian banks are now required to offer a recipient name-verification service, operating in a manner comparable to Confirmation-of-Payee schemes used elsewhere, covering both instant and standard credit transfers. This obligation is reported via Croatian trade press describing an HNB-level confirmation, rather than directly retrieved from a primary HNB bulletin this cycle, placing the finding at probable rather than confirmed confidence. The timing of this requirement relative to Croatia's completed instant-payments rollout is analytically significant. As instant credit transfers execute in a matter of seconds rather than the multi-day settlement windows that preceded them, the practical opportunity for a payer or their bank to intervene and reverse a misdirected or fraudulently induced payment narrows sharply. A recipient name-verification service addresses this narrowed window at the point of payment initiation, checking whether the name a payer has entered matches the actual account holder before the transfer executes, rather than relying on post-transfer recovery mechanisms that instant settlement speed makes considerably less effective. This positions Croatia's consumer-protection response as following directly from, rather than independent of, the payments-infrastructure change: the same instant-settlement capability that improves payment efficiency also elevates authorised-push-payment fraud risk, and the name-verification mandate is the regulatory response calibrated to that elevated risk. No Croatia-specific liability-reimbursement framework for authorised-push-payment fraud losses was located in the evidence reaching this cycle beyond the verification-service requirement itself. #### Outlook The open question is whether the recipient name-verification service, once operational, measurably reduces authorised-push-payment fraud losses in the Croatian market, and whether a Croatia-specific liability or reimbursement framework for such fraud develops alongside it. Primary-source confirmation of the exact technical specification of the verification service would also sharpen this finding beyond its current probable-confidence standing. no periodic updates on record for this sub-brief ** Sources and findings (5)** 1. T1 [https://www.hnb.hr/en/core-functions/payment-system/complaints](https://www.hnb.hr/en/core-functions/payment-system/complaints) 2. T1 [https://www.hnb.hr/en/about-us/consumer-protection/regulations](https://www.hnb.hr/en/about-us/consumer-protection/regulations) Applies beyond this jurisdiction (EU) 3. T1 [https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20251121IPR31540/payment-services-deal-more-protection-from-online-fraud-and-hidden-fees](https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20251121IPR31540/payment-services-deal-more-protection-from-online-fraud-and-hidden-fees) Applies beyond this jurisdiction (EU) 4. T3 [https://efri.io/eu-psr-psd3-empty-app-fraud-protections-for-victims/](https://efri.io/eu-psr-psd3-empty-app-fraud-protections-for-victims/) Applies beyond this jurisdiction (EU) retrieved 2026-07-04 5. T3 [https://stable-view-app.com/en/sto-nudimo/](https://stable-view-app.com/en/sto-nudimo/) Applies beyond this jurisdiction (EU) retrieved 2026-07-04 ### W11 AML/CFT & Financial Crime [Sourced from Sentinel.gi ↗](https://sentinel.gi/jurisdictions/croatia/#sec-dom-D7) Probable confirmed 2026-07-04 Sentinel.gi payments-context position: Croatia's AML/CFT framework rests on the 2017 AMLTF Law (harmonised with the 4th/5th EU AML Directives), supervised jointly by HNB (banks/credit institutions), HANFA (capital markets/CASPs), the Financial Inspectorate (non-bank FIs, exchange offices), and coordinated via the Anti-Money Laundering Office (AMLO/FIU). MONEYVAL's December 2024 follow-up report found Croatia now compliant or largely compliant on 36 of 40 applicable FATF Recommendations, an improvement from its 2021 mutual evaluation. Absence reason not determinable No sub-brief exists and the JID records no gap or review marker explaining why. The renderer will not invent a reason. no periodic updates on record for this sub-brief ** Sources and findings (6)** 1. T1 sentinel.hnb.hr/en/-/financial-inspectorate-of-the-republic-of-croatia-imposes-a-hrk-33m-fine-on-zagreba%C4%8Dka-banka-d.d. 2. T? FIM (sentinel.gi) per-JID baseline profile — Croatia — Croatia's AML/CFT regime rests on the Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Law (AMLTFL, 2017, amended 2023), supervised by the Ministry of Finance's Anti-Money Laundering Office (AMLO/FIU), HNB (banking) and HANFA/CFSSA (capital markets). Croatia was FATF grey-listed June 2023-June 2025; MONEYVAL rates the regime as improving but with residual gaps in VASP supervision, ML prosecutions, and confiscation capacity. 3. T1 FIM (sentinel.gi) enforcement_action_register (issue FIM-BASE-ENF-003) — Enforcement: MONEYVAL/FATF — Croatia's AML/CFT technical compliance framework 4. T? FIM (sentinel.gi) gaps_register_cumulative (issue FIM-BASE-GAP-004) — Gap: capacity-deficit 5. T? FIM (sentinel.gi) gaps_register_cumulative (issue FIM-BASE-GAP-001) — Gap: legal-gap 6. T? FIM (sentinel.gi) gaps_register_cumulative (issue FIM-BASE-GAP-002) — Gap: enforcement-absence ### W12 Correspondent Banking, Settlement & Access Probable confirmed 2026-07-04 Croatia's settlement infrastructure is fully integrated into the Eurosystem via TARGET-HR (RTGS), EuroNCS/EuroNCSInst (retail/instant clearing), and T2S (securities), removing much of the prior reliance on correspondent banking for cross-border euro settlement since euro adoption in 2023. No specific de-risking crisis or correspondent-banking access gap was identified for Croatia in the sources reviewed. Standing sub-brief · as of 22 September 2026 224 words · last cycle 2026-09-21 #### Correspondent Banking, Settlement & Access Croatia's domestic settlement infrastructure for instant payments runs through TARGET-HR, which settles transactions via TIPS dedicated cash accounts on a 24/7/365 basis for Croatian direct participants. This is a Confirmed finding, sourced directly from HNB's own publication on Croatian payment-system architecture, and it represents the structural mechanism underpinning Croatia's compliance with the EU Instant Payments Regulation's send-and-receive mandates covered elsewhere in this cycle's findings. The TARGET-HR/TIPS arrangement is structurally significant because it determines which entities in Croatia have direct settlement access versus which must rely on a direct participant for indirect access. This module's analytical spine is the bank-versus-non-bank access asymmetry: direct TIPS participation is typically available to bank-PSP entities meeting the relevant technical and prudential criteria, while non-bank payment institutions and e-money institutions more commonly access instant-settlement rails indirectly, through a sponsoring direct participant. No specific data on the population of Croatian direct-versus-indirect participants was located within this cycle's evidence, and this remains an open question for future research. #### Outlook The TARGET-HR/TIPS settlement mechanism is a stable structural feature of Croatia's payments architecture, and no change to the underlying mechanism is anticipated absent a new HNB publication. What would sharpen this module's coverage is data on the specific population and composition of direct versus indirect TIPS participants in Croatia, distinguishing bank-PSP direct access from non-bank indirect access arrangements. no periodic updates on record for this sub-brief ** Sources and findings (4)** 1. T1 [https://www.hnb.hr/en/-/target-hr](https://www.hnb.hr/en/-/target-hr) 2. T1 [https://www.hnb.hr/en/-/croatian-component-of-the-target2-payment-system-established](https://www.hnb.hr/en/-/croatian-component-of-the-target2-payment-system-established) 3. T1 [https://www.hnb.hr/en/-/target-hr](https://www.hnb.hr/en/-/target-hr) 4. T1 [https://www.hnb.hr/en/core-functions/payment-system/payment-systems/euroncsinst](https://www.hnb.hr/en/core-functions/payment-system/payment-systems/euroncsinst) ### W13 Commercial Intelligence (M&A, Investment & Product) Probable confirmed 2026-07-04 Croatia's fintech/payments commercial activity in the trailing 12 months centres on continued growth at Aircash and Electrocoin, HANFA's first full MiCA CASP authorisation (Electrocoin, April 2026), and a broader Croatian startup funding surge in early 2026 versus the prior year, though few large disclosed payments-specific M&A transactions were identified. Standing sub-brief · as of 6 August 2026 124 words · last cycle 2026-10-18 #### Commercial Intelligence (M&A, Investment & Product) The only commercial-ecosystem signal identified for Croatia this cycle is the Money Motion 2026 fintech, payments and AI industry summit, scheduled for 11-12 March 2026 in Zagreb and positioned as a leading Central and Eastern European fintech gathering. This is a conference/event listing rather than a disclosed M&A transaction, funding round or product launch, and is treated here as a lower-confidence ecosystem watch item rather than a discrete commercial event. #### Outlook Money Motion 2026 is flagged as a watch item for the domain tracker rather than a confirmed transaction; if the summit yields announced deals, funding rounds or product launches involving Croatian or CEE-focused payments firms, those would be captured as discrete W13 events in a subsequent cycle. Periodic update · new data 2026-10-19 #### Commercial Intelligence & Fintech The principal commercial-intelligence event for Croatia this cycle is the completed acquisition of Croatia Banka by Hrvatska postanska banka (HPB), rendered here as a discrete, disclosed commercial transaction rather than as a structural market-trend observation. The deal parties were HPB as acquirer, Croatia Banka as target, and the Croatian Deposit Insurance Agency as seller, with the transaction's consideration publicly disclosed at EUR 15 million for 100 percent of the target. The agreement was signed on 4 March 2026, and the transaction completed, in the sense of closing, on 1 September 2026, with the final regulatory step, HNB's merger-by-acquisition approval, following on 30 September 2026. This event is sourced to HPB's own issuer disclosures and a corresponding Zagreb Stock Exchange issuer filing, both of which disclose the transaction amount, so no amount-undisclosed flag applies here. The regulatory-review record attached to the event names three distinct reviewing authorities and their outcomes: AZTN cleared the concentration under merger control, the European Central Bank cleared the change in qualifying control, and HNB cleared the merger by acquisition itself, each marked as cleared in the disclosed record. No other discrete commercial event, such as a funding round, product launch, or additional M&A transaction, was identified for Croatia this cycle. The HPB/Croatia Banka transaction stands as the sole item in the commercial-intelligence record for this period. #### Outlook As this transaction has now cleared every disclosed regulatory-review stage, no further discrete commercial-event milestones tied to the HPB/Croatia Banka deal itself are anticipated; any subsequent disclosures would most plausibly concern post-completion integration rather than new transactional events. No other Croatia-specific commercial event was in view this cycle to inform further near-term expectation. **Sources and findings (4)** 1. T2 [https://www.croatiaweek.com/croatia-first-mica-crypto-licence-electrocoin/](https://www.croatiaweek.com/croatia-first-mica-crypto-licence-electrocoin/) 2. T3 [https://tracxn.com/d/legal-entities/croatia/aircash-d.o.o./id9VvBEniLG-vaYahlnCV4UbcITcgG9Kt9GNUMv_yTw](https://tracxn.com/d/legal-entities/croatia/aircash-d.o.o./id9VvBEniLG-vaYahlnCV4UbcITcgG9Kt9GNUMv_yTw) 3. T3 [https://tracxn.com/d/geographies/croatia/66GZDgE4c7mtFZeNfi38zCZ9XRuNmcpeXIZP3E01LAU](https://tracxn.com/d/geographies/croatia/66GZDgE4c7mtFZeNfi38zCZ9XRuNmcpeXIZP3E01LAU) 4. T3 [https://getlatka.com/companies/aircash.eu](https://getlatka.com/companies/aircash.eu) ** No modules match.** Filters combine as OR inside a group and AND across groups. ## Editorial metadata Provenance only. Nothing below gates publication or affects the render. 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