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AIB HAS been forced to take an 85 per cent writedown on a US property investment debt.

The bank is one of a group of debt holders led by Winthrop Realty Trust which holds about $300 million in senior mezzanine debt on an 80-acre apartment complex in east Manhattan known as Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village.