Ally Financial, the lending artist formerly known as GMAC Financial, inches closer to freedom from government ownership as the United States Treasury begins a second trading plan to shed its shares.
Automotive News reports the plan would allow the U.S. Treasury "to continue exiting the investment in a manner that balances speed of exit with maximizing the taxpayer's return," according to CFO Charmian Uy.
The first plan saw the Treasury sell 8.9 million shares for $218.7 million in ROI for taxpayers, adding to the $18 billion recovered since the department first took majority ownership at the beginning of the Great Recession six years ago.
At the time, $17.2 billion was given to the floundering lender via the Troubled Asset Relief Program to prevent falling into the same abyss that took Lehman Brothers, Washington Mutual and a number of small banks, giving the Treasury 74 percent of the shares then available. Currently, it holds just 13.8 percent — or 66.2 million shares — of Ally common stock, all of which may be sold by the end of 2014.
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