Thursday 08 January 2009


	
    

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Financial storm hits Iceland

The global financial crisis hit tiny Iceland - whose banks had extensive overseas dealings - especially hard. Hélène Frade and Angela Yeoh traveled to Iceland Oct. 9-15, 2008 to report from the scene.

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The party is over for Iceland The Icelandic government has been granted control over national banks as the island's famously liberal banking sector tottered on the edge, raising the grim spectre of national bankruptcy.

Brown slams Iceland's freezing of British clients' bank accounts British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has condemned as "completely unacceptable" and "illegal" the attitude of Iceland's government, after it froze bank accounts held by British savers amid attempts to bolster the country's failing banks.

Iceland seeks to allay European depositor fears Icelandic and British officials are meeting in Reykjavik to resolve a dispute over UK investments as the Nordic country reached an agreement with the Netherlands.

National bankruptcy looms after Iceland's banks go bust In the past week, Iceland's government took over the country's top three banks, hundreds of bank employees were fired and the stock exchange was closed down. The island nation of 300,000 people now faces bankruptcy.


 

 

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