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  • Bank of England made secret £62 billion loans to bankrupt banks 30 Nov 2009 10:33 GMT
    ... made secret £62 billion loans to bankrupt banks Bank of England governor Mervyn King has ... issued at the height of the international banking crisis, were to prevent the collapse of ... and mortgage lenders were failing in Britain, Iceland, Denmark, Germany and Belgium. So great was ...

  • Welsh councils set to get back just 80% of Icelandic money 27 Nov 2009 09:03 GMT
    ... Welsh councils set to get back just 80% of Icelandic money WELSH public bodies that invested in Icelandic banks that went bust are likely to get back only 80% of their money, it has ...

  • Iceland consumer confidence dips in Nov 26 Nov 2009 15:18 GMT
    ... Nov 26 (Reuters) - Consumer confidence in Iceland, mired in its worst ever economic crisis, ... points, Gallup said in a statement. Iceland's banking system imploded last year as the global ... global crisis shut off credit to its banks, who had borrowed heavily to fund overseas ...

  • Icelandic lender reprivatised 2 Dec 2009 01:36 GMT
    ... agreed to take control of a second Icelandic bank as part of efforts to claw ... Glitnir are offloaded. Creditors, including large European banks and other institutions, agreed to take an ... the years before the crisis, when the banking sector grew to 10 times the size ...

  • mortgages, savings accounts 2 Dec 2009 15:12 GMT
    ... In August, Chelsea set aside £41m for mortgage frauds, a key factor to the society ... of the victims of the two failed Icelandic banks. It had to write off £44m in ...

  • Germany's DekaBank sues Iceland over lost savings 25 Nov 2009 15:15 GMT
    ... Nov 25 (Reuters) - DekaBank, the asset manager for a group of German savings banks, said on Wednesday it is suing the Icelandic government over emergency legislation giving priority to domestic savers during its financial crisis. Legal ...

  • 'Host country' regulation a way to rein in banks -study 27 Nov 2009 00:34 GMT
    ... (Reuters) - Regulators in countries hosting global banks should be able to dictate the laws ... new study on how to respond to banking crisis said on Friday. The report by ... the collapse of the UK arms of Icelandic banks last year -- highlighted this point. ...

  • "Host country" regulation a way to rein in banks -study 27 Nov 2009 01:34 GMT
    ... Regulators in countries hosting global banks should be able to dictate the laws ... new study on how to respond to banking crisis said Friday. The report by the ... the collapse of the UK arms of Icelandic banks last year -- highlighted this point. ...

  • Iceland closer to deal with IMF on loan 28 Nov 2009 13:53 GMT
    ... Reykjavik/Stockholm - Iceland was reported Monday to be inching closer ... International Monetary Fund (IMF) and several central banks. The online edition of the Financial Times reported ...

  • Iceland: Inflation October 2009 27 Nov 2009 12:30 GMT
    ... and businesses that have indexed loans (especially mortgages) which in turn increases risk of default ... of default and so adversely affects the banking sector. Dropping the VAT altogether would reduce ... indexed loans and increase economic stability. Still, Iceland does not appear to be in economic ...

  • The potentially huge exposure of UK banks in Dubai,... 30 Nov 2009 17:50 GMT
    ... The potentially huge exposure of UK banks in Dubai, depreciating some UK bank share ... of this lending was linked to investment banking deals: the dash for upfront fees, creating ... world with a UK taxpayer guarantee. As Iceland has discovered to its cost, when a ...

  • Iceland president to get honorary degree 1 Dec 2009 03:11 GMT
    ... Iceland President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson is noted for ... mostly because of a failure in its banking systems. “If Iceland can do this coming from ...

  • Taiwan stocks at 2-wk low as Dubai woes hit banks 27 Nov 2009 02:33 GMT
    ... 5 percent, dragging the broader financial Other banking shares also fell, with Chinatrust falling more ... about its plan to buy a 'Taiwan banks actually have very little exposure to Dubai,' ... Lee. 'But as we saw from the Iceland saga, these are confidence issues, and having ...

  • Iceland food chain boss Malcolm Walker approached by ex-Baugur chief Jon Asgeir Johannesson over Hagar investment 24 Nov 2009 00:42 GMT
    ... Iceland food chain boss Malcolm Walker approached by ... The letter was apparently shown to the banks, but Mr Johannesson refused to disclose the names ...

  • Protest in Iceland yesterday 30 Nov 2009 09:33 GMT
    ... Protest season started again yesterday in Iceland. People are protesting: why is the Government ... the Icesave account, that one of the banks messed up in England and Holland? Why should ...


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