Austria: Bawag to Pay Off Further State Capital

People ♦ Published: November 13, 2013; 11:07 ♦ (Vindobona)

Today CEO Byron Haynes announced that Bawag will pay back a further tranche of the bank state aid injected in 2009.

Austria: Bawag to Pay Off Further State Capital / Picture: © BAWAG

The next tranch will be amortized in December. In June the bank has started paying off the first tranche in the volume of € 50m of a total of € 550m in state capital. According to the bank it became possible by making the capital available internally. In October, the rest of a risky structured credit portfolio worth more than € 3bn was sold which is why risk weighted assets in the…