Government completes sale of Lloyds with £894m profit

‘We’ve turned the group around’

Victoria McKeever
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The government has sold the last of its shareholding in Lloyds Banking Group, returning almost £900m in profit.

The government acquired a 43% shareholding in Lloyds in 2009 following a £20.3bn intervention in the struggling bank. The sale returned £21.2bn to the taxpayer and earned £894m on top of the initial investment, including £400m in dividends, the government said. Lloyds banking group was bailed out by the UK Financial Investment unit of the Treasury during the financial crisis. The government aimed to turn a profit for taxpayers on the sale of the shareholding. Shares were sold through accelerated bookbuilds (ABBs) in September 2013 and March 2014, which involved selling a large bloc...

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