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Dutch state lowers its stake in ABN Amro to around 30%
Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on May 20, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 23, 2026
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Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on May 20, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 23, 2026
The Dutch government has reduced its stake in ABN Amro to around 30%, losing prior approval rights on major bank decisions. This is part of a strategy to gradually divest from the bank.
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -The Dutch government has lowered its stake in ABN Amro to around 30%, the lender said on Tuesday.
The Dutch state had announced its intention to cut its stake last October. It held a majority of ABN Amro shares for years, but has been winding down its holding since early 2023.
With its stake falling below one-third, from 40.5% previously, the state will no longer have prior approval rights on the issuance of shares or large investments and divestments by the bank.
ABN Amro, one of three dominant banks in the Netherlands, was nationalised during the 2008 financial crisis, and re-privatised in 2015.
(Reporting by Bart Meijer; Editing by Kirsten Donovan)
The article discusses the Dutch government's reduction of its stake in ABN Amro to around 30% and its implications.
The reduction is part of a strategy to gradually divest from ABN Amro, following its re-privatization in 2015.
With the stake below one-third, the Dutch state loses prior approval rights on major bank decisions.
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