In April 2008, the then-head of the Central Bank of Iceland, David Oddsson sent a formal request to his counterpart at the Bank of England, Mervyn King, to implement a currency swap agreement between the two countries, Althingi’s new collapse report states. The request was rejected. Read the full story

David Oddsson, Iceland’s former Prime Minister and central bank manager and current joint editor of Morgunbladid newspaper, will be overseas when the Althingi report into the banking crisis is released on Monday. Read the full story

Robert Boyes, Times correspondent and author of the new book Meltdown Iceland, says that everyone except Icelanders knew the Icelandic economic collapse was approaching as early as 2006. Read the full story

Icelandic newspaper DV claims that some 10,000 subscribers have given up rival paper, Morgunbladid since former Prime Minister and central bank manager David Oddsson was appointed editor. Read the full story

The parliamentary president’s committee has decided in a meeting on Wednesday that it will terminate its Morgunbladid subscription for MPs. The Icelandic parliament has, up until now, paid for each Member of Parliament to receive a daily copy of the newspaper. Read the full story

Former Icelandic Prime Minister and head of the Central Bank of Iceland David Oddsson has been hired as the new editor of Morgunbladid, the country’s most influential and widely bought newspaper. Former Vidskiptabladid editor Haraldur Johannessen will be co-editor and Sigurdur Mar Jonsson will take over at Vidskiptabladid, Iceland’s business and financial newspaper. Read the full story

David Oddsson, former head of the Central Bank of Iceland (CBI), gave a controversial speech to the Independence Party conference on Saturday. In the speech Oddsson accused his replacement Svein Harald Oygard of either lying or suffering from a very serious case of Alzheimer’s disease. Read the full story

Bjarni Benediktsson is the new party leader of the Independence Party, with 58.1 percent of votes, and is taking over the leadership from Geir Haarde, former Prime Minister and successor to David Oddsson. At the party conference Haarde said the Independence Party had made “serious mistakes” when the banks were privatized six years ago. Read the full story

David Oddsson and Eirikur Gudnason, the governors of the Central Bank of Iceland, said a fond farewell to bank staff at a meeting earlier today, MBL reported. Read the full story

Central Bank of Iceland (CBI) chairman, David Oddsson made a rare public appearance on the Kastljos current affairs programme on RUV television this evening. Read the full story