.Jasper Juinen|Bloomberg|Getty ImagesThe Dutch authorities on Tuesday claimed it will definitely decrease its concern in finance company ABN Amro by a quarter to 30% through an investing plan.Shares of the Dutch banking company traded 1.2% lower at the marketplace open and also was actually last down 0.6% as of 9:15 a.m. London time.The Dutch federal government, which presently holds a 40.5% passion in ABN Amro, declared via its expenditure car organization NLFI that it are going to sell reveals utilizing a pre-arranged trading program set to be actually executed by Barclays Bank Ireland.In September, the federal government had claimed it sold shares worth about 1.17 billion europeans, bringing its shareholding under 50%. It made use of component of the profits to pay a number of the state's debts.ABN Amro was actually bailed out due to the state during the course of the 2008 economic crisis and later privatized in 2015. The authorities started reducing its shareholding in the agency final year.The finance company came into condition possession "to ensure the security of the financial body and also certainly not as a financial investment to help make a gain," the Financial Administrator Eelco Heinen claimed in a letter to parliament, restating previous declarations on the government's intentions.In order to recover what the government's overall expenditure, the entire continuing to be concern would certainly need to be actually cost a rate of 31.49 europeans every portion, Heinen pointed out in September, including that it is "not reasonable" that such a cost will be attained in the short-term. As of the Monday close, ABN Amro's allotment price was actually 15.83 euros.Rebound in sharesThe financial field has remained in the spotlight lately, after UniCredit's move to take a concern in German financial institution Commerzbank triggered inquiries on cross-border mergers in Europe and also the lack of a full financial union in the region.Governments have been actually taking advantage of a rebound in allotments to sell their shareholdings in banks that were actually consumed throughout the monetary problems. The U.K. and also German administrations have each made steps this year to lower their particular shareholdings in NatWest as well as Commerzbank.ABN Amro was the subject of procurement speculation in 2015, when media files asserted French bank BNP Paribas was interested in the Dutch financial institution. During the time, BNP Paribas refused the reports.