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Ireland sells final AIB shares 15 years after banking crisis
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Posted on June 17, 2025
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Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on June 17, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 23, 2026
Ireland sells its final AIB shares, concluding a 15-year recovery from the banking crisis, generating 305 million euros.
DUBLIN (Reuters) -The Irish government said on Tuesday that it had sold its remaining shares in AIB Group, one of the country's two dominant lenders it effectively nationalised 15 years ago as part of the euro zone's biggest state rescue.
The state sold a 2.06% stake in AIB at 6.94 euros per share, which will generate 305 million euros ($352.6 million) upon settlement, the finance ministry said in a statement. That will take to 19.8 billion euros the total amount returned to the state to date from its investment in AIB, it added.
($1 = 0.8650 euros)
(Writing by Conor Humphries; editing by Barbara Lewis)
The Irish government sold a 2.06% stake in AIB Group.
The sale will generate 305 million euros ($352.6 million) upon settlement.
The Irish government effectively nationalized AIB Group 15 years ago during the banking crisis.
The shares were sold at a price of 6.94 euros per share.
The article was written by Conor Humphries and edited by Barbara Lewis.
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