Austria to Sell Nationalized Bank Kommunalkredit

Companies ♦ Published: November 29, 2011; 23:28 ♦ (Vindobona)

The nationalized lender has to be sold by mid-2013. Finance Minister Fekter hopes for proceeds of € 500m.

Austria to Sell Nationalized Bank Kommunalkredit / Picture: © Kommunalkredit

Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann and Finance Minister Maria Fekter have agreed to sell Kommunalkredit Austria AG, the bank that was nationalized in 2008. The sale by mid-2013 was a condition imposed by the EU when it allowed a state subsidy of € 250m for the bank.

The privatization will not be an easy task for Fimbag (the holding company for the public participation capital…