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Financial Agency (Croatia)

FINA

images by Željko Heimer, 14 October 2006

Description of the flag

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Description of the flag

FINA (website) is the main company in the financial mediation, owned by the state dealing with the public finances. It has been established in 2002 by the reform of the state-owned Institute for Payment Transactions (Zavod za platni promet, ZAP), and of the older Social Accounting Service (Služba društvenog knjigovodstva, SDK). In the Socialist period, SDK enjoyed the exclusive right in the former state to perform payment transactions within the country. In 1993 it was transformed into ZAP and gradually the state removed the monopoly in the transactions. FINA has over 180 offices in all towns around the country.
Recently, a flag appeared over some of the FINA offices in Zagreb. To the best of my knowledge, this is the first time that this agency uses a flag. The flag is very dark blue (it looks almost black, but I doubt that it was the color of choice) with the logo of the agency set along the very bottom of the flag. The flag is apparently printed, so that the reverse includes the logo along the oposite edge rotated 180 degrees. When the lighting is proper, that is, almost whenever there is enough light to see colours, the logo from the back side is visible through semitransparent sheet. It may have been intentional, or not.
The logo consists of the writing "Fina" using a sans-serif font, with 9 rectangles ot the left of letter "F", each gradually being thinner than the previous.

Željko Heimer, 14 October 2006