.Jasper Juinen|Bloomberg|Getty ImagesThe Dutch federal government on Tuesday said it will certainly lessen its concern in lender ABN Amro by a quarter to 30% via an investing plan.Shares of the Dutch banking company traded 1.2% lesser at the market place available and was final down 0.6% as of 9:15 a.m. London time.The Dutch authorities, which presently secures a 40.5% rate of interest in ABN Amro, declared through its financial investment vehicle firm NLFI that it will certainly market portions using a pre-arranged trading program set to be actually performed through Barclays Banking company Ireland.In September, the federal government had stated it sold reveals worth about 1.17 billion europeans, carrying its own shareholding under 50%. It made use of part of the proceeds to pay several of the condition's debts.ABN Amro was actually released due to the state throughout the 2008 financial problems and later on privatized in 2015. The federal government started decreasing its own shareholding in the company last year.The loan provider entered state possession "to make certain the stability of the financial device and not as an expenditure to make a profit," the Finance Minister Eelco Heinen mentioned in a letter to parliament, restating previous declarations on the authorities's intentions.In order to redeem what the government's total expense, the whole entire remaining concern would have to be sold at a cost of 31.49 euros every reveal, Heinen mentioned in September, including that it is "not reasonable" that such a price is going to be attained in the short term. Since the Monday close, ABN Amro's portion cost was 15.83 euros.Rebound in sharesThe financial sector has actually remained in the limelight of late, after UniCredit's transfer to take a risk in German lender Commerzbank sparked concerns on cross-border mergings in Europe as well as the shortage of a complete financial union in the region.Governments have actually been actually taking advantage of a rebound in reveals to sell their shareholdings in financial institutions that were actually consumed during the economic situation. The U.K. and also German administrations have both made moves this year to lessen their respective shareholdings in NatWest and also Commerzbank.ABN Amro was the subject matter of purchase speculation in 2013, when media reports claimed French bank BNP Paribas had an interest in the Dutch lending institution. At the moment, BNP Paribas refused the documents.