Attica Bank draws over €672 mln

Attica Bank, Greece's fifth largest lender, has raised 672.2 million euros in the context of the share capital increase that was completed and covered to the tune of 86.94% by existing shareholders.

As part of the increase, 359,469,360 shares were issued and the same number of share purchase certificates, which were made available to the participants in the increase.

According to the bank's announcement, the existing shareholders exercised their preferential rights by paying a total amount of €584.4 million euros, which corresponds to 312,519,944 new shares.

In the context of share increase, the Hellenic Financial Stability Fund (HFSF) paid €448.3 million for the acquisition of 239.7 million new shares, Thrivest Holdings paid €58.6 million to buy 31.3 million new common shares corresponding to its proportional participation in the process, the Single Social...