Former director of Kaupthing Bank, Hreidar Mar Sigurdsson, has sent a letter to the Icelandic Prime Minister complaining about the Icelandic Financial Supervisory Authority.
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Kaupthing boss hits out at Icelandic regulators
Posted on 25 September 2010.
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Landsbanki under restriction due to FSA regulations before terrorist laws applied
Posted on 16 December 2009.
A letter sent from the UK FSA, Financial Services Authority, to Landsbanki on the 3rd October 2008 established that assets were frozen five days before the British government introduced the terrorist law.
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Iceland’s Minister of Commerce and board and director of FSA resign
Posted on 25 January 2009.
Bjorgvin G. Sigurdsson, Iceland’s Minister of Commerce has resigned from his post. At the same time he announced that the director of the Icelandic Financial Supervisory Authority, Jonas Fr. Jonsson and the board of the institution are stepping down also. Sigurdsson stated that with this he is shouldering his share of the responsibility for the [...]
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UK hedge fund reported to Icelandic and UK authorities
Posted on 12 April 2008.
The Financial Services Authorities (FSA) in the UK and Iceland have been warned about a London-based hedge fund which disapproved of a British professor‘s positive assessment of the Icelandic economy, reports visir.is and Iceland Review. Dr Richard Portes, professor in economics at the London Business School and President of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, [...]
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