LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s government said on Thursday that it plans to sell up to a 15% stake in NatWest over a 12 month window.
The finance ministry said it had instructed Morgan Stanley to sell NatWest shares on its behalf in a plan starting from August 12 and running until August 11, 2022. It said it planned to sell up to 15% of the total trading volume of NatWest shares at or above a price per share that the government determines “delivers value for money for the taxpayer”.
The British state currently owns around 54.7% of NatWest after bailing out the lender, then known as Royal Bank of Scotland, during the financial crisis in 2008.
Details of the share sale come after the government sold 1.1 billion pounds ($1.51 billion) worth of NatWest shares through a one-off stock offering in May.
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(Reporting by Rachel Armstrong, editing by Karin Strohecker)
