Goldman Sachs to exit ICBC with $1.1 billion stake selldown: IFR

Goldman Sachs launched on Monday a sale of about $1.1 billion worth of Hong Kong-traded shares in Industrial and Commercial Bank of China <1398.HK>, offering to sell its entire remaining stake in the world's biggest bank.

Goldman offered the shares in ICBC in a range of HK$5.47 to HK$5.50, equivalent to a discount of up to 3 percent to Monday's close of HK$5.64, IFR reported, citing a term sheet of the deal.

The Monday sale will mark the end of an era for the U.S. bank, which has held a stake in ICBC since 2006, said a source with direct knowledge of the selldown.

The sale would be Goldman's third in about one year, after the New York-based investment bank raised $2.5 billion from a partial selldown of ICBC in April of 2012, most of which was bought by Singapore state investor Temasek , and another in January of 2013 worth $1 billion.

(Reporting by Fiona Lau of IFR; Writing by Elzio Barreto; Editing by Miral Fahmy)