Investors in an ill-fated mutual society voted to accept a deal that will see them lose a proportion but not all of their savings.
An overwhelming majority of the Presbyterian Mutual Society's 9,500 savers have accepted the offer from administrators that will see its business run down in an orderly manner.
The Northern Ireland-based society was plunged into crisis last November after a run on its funds.
Administrator Arthur Boyd last month wrote to investors making clear that getting back all of their savings was not an option.
He made a series of proposals that would see an orderly run-down of the society's business over time through a formal arrangement allowed for under insolvency legislation.
At the time he warned investors that if they rejected the offer they stood to lose even more money if the society was placed into immediate liquidation.
It has emerged that around 90% of savers who returned ballot papers have voted to accept the deal.
How much they will lose has not been detailed, but investments in property are thought to have fallen by at least 40%.
The PMS was set up in 1982 to encourage Presbyterians to save for their mutual benefit and enable shareholders to borrow at a competitive rate of interest.
Church figures and politicians in Northern Ireland have urged British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to offer society members the same protection for deposits he offered to investors in other UK banks, but so far he has declined.
