Landsbanki

Icelandic bank

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history of Iceland

  • Iceland
    In Iceland: Financial boom and bust

    …of the three large banks, Landsbanki, sent shock waves abroad as the British and Dutch governments stepped in to compensate their citizens whose deposits in the bank had been lost. Initially, the Althing voted to compensate Britain and the Netherlands, but in 2011 Pres. Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson refused to sign…

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