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

Geir H. Haarde, the former Icelandic Prime Minister, was in a BBC HARDtalk interview last night. He was questioned especially about the blame of the financial collapse last October, communication between him and the British PM Gordon Brown and private talks with the governor of the Central Bank of Iceland, David Oddsson. Read the full story

At around dinner time on 2 February 2009, a letter was sent by messenger from the Prime Minister to the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Central Bank of Iceland at the latter’s home. The Chairman’s place of work, of course, is the Central Bank, and this was a working day. Read the full story

A group of protesters this morning gathered outside the Central Bank of Iceland in order to block the bank chiefs’ access to the building as they arrived for work. Two of the bank’s three chairmen, David Oddsson and Eirikur Gudnason have refused to yield to the new Prime Minister’s demand that they resign. The remaining chairman, Ingimundur Fridriksson, does intend to resign. Read the full story

The Central Bank of Iceland has issued the speech of David Oddsson, the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Central Bank.

His speech is available in a pdf file here.

“Not all conversations concerning this matter have been made public . . . When the matter is investigated, other conversations will have to be made public. I am aware of what they are about and I am aware of what in fact determined the position of the UK authorities,” the Financial Times quotes Icelandic central bank chairman David Oddsson as saying. Read the full story