Embattled Gylfi Magnusson, Iceland’s trade minister, has been invited to a meeting with both government coalition parties this morning. The subject of the meeting will be foreign currency indexed loans. Read the full story
Posted on 16 August 2010.
Embattled Gylfi Magnusson, Iceland’s trade minister, has been invited to a meeting with both government coalition parties this morning. The subject of the meeting will be foreign currency indexed loans. Read the full story
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Posted on 14 August 2010.
Pressure is mounting on Iceland’s Minister of Trade, Gylfi Magnusson, to resign over allegations he deliberately misled parliament a year ago. Read the full story
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Posted on 19 July 2010.
Iceland’s minister for trade, Gylfi Magnusson, says the cautionary words from the CEO of Fitch Ratings about the Icelandic Supreme Court’s ruling that foreign currency loans are illegal do not come as a surprise. Magnusson says the uncertainty surrounding how such loans will be dealt with now is unsettling. Read the full story
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Posted on 02 June 2010.
Some 80 percent of Icelanders surveyed by Capacent Gallup say they support having one or more non-elected government ministers; and three quarters also support government proposals to lower the number of ministries. The result is not pleasant reading for the least popular elected ministers. Read the full story
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Posted on 17 March 2010.
28 cases of organisations breaking Iceland’s strict temporary currency restrictions have been sent to the FME financial regulator, according to Minister for Economic Affairs Gylfi Magnusson. Read the full story
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Posted on 05 January 2010.
Iceland’s Ministry of Finance last year hired one of the most sought after PR companies in the world to protect Icelandic interests abroad and liaise with foreign media. Read the full story
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Posted on 31 October 2009.
Iceland’s Minister for Economic Affairs, Gylfi Magnuson says that restrictions on capital inflow to Iceland will be lifted next week. The move is an important precursor to lifting restrictions on capital outflow as well, he said. Read the full story
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Posted on 28 October 2009.
Gylfi Magnusson, Icelandic Minister for Economic Affairs says it has yet to be decided whether the country’s financial regulator (FME) and the Central Bank of Iceland will be merged. Read the full story
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Posted on 31 August 2009.
Iceland’s economic outlook is slightly better than previously forecast and it looks like there will be no contraction of GDP next year, according to Gylfi Magnusson, the country’s Minister for Trade. Read the full story
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Posted on 05 April 2009.
The Icelandic American Chamber of Commerce will hold a conference this Tuesday in New York entitled ‘The Icelandic Economy and Outlook’.
This year’s keynote speaker will be Gylfi Magnusson, Icelandic Minister for Business Affairs. He will be joined in the same session by Mark Flanagan, the head of the IMF mission to Iceland. Read the full story
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