Marel did not get any Icesave money
Capital from Icesave Holland was not used to finance Marel’s Food System purchase of Stork Fund Systems. According to Hordur Arnarsson CEO of Ma...
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SAS flight makes emergency landing in Sweden
The recent spate of in-flight airline emergencies that has plagued carriers like Qantas, United and Spanair, can now include Scandinavian Airlines (SA...
Greenland to the aid of its North Atlantic neighbour
Inuit Brotherhood, the Greenlandic political party, is calling on parliament to follow in the steps of the other territories of the Danish kingdom and...
Sweden busts steroid doping ring
A massive nationwide police sting netted 40 people from around Sweden who were allegedly part of a huge steroid doping ring. During the pre-dawn raids...
Status of domestic and international payment intermediation: Payments to Iceland
PRESS RELEASE FROM THE CENTRAL BANK OF ICELAND: The importance of smoothly functioning cross-border payment intermediation through Iceland’s com...
Foreign exchange market
PRESS RELEASE FROM THE CENTRAL BANK OF ICELAND: Because of the unusual circumstances that arose in the Icelandic banks’ operations in October, interba...
Russian and US chiefs meet in Finland
As a result of the brief August war between Russia and Georgia, the US and Russia agreed to meet in Finland to try and find some common ground as the ...
‘British offer to guarantee Icesave declined by Iceland Central Bank’
Bjorgolfur Thor Bjorgolfsson, a major shareholder of Landsbanki, said this week that deposits with the collapsed savings brand Icesave could have been...