Denmark considering joining the eurozone
Denmark’s Prime Minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, has announced that he hopes a referendum will be called to decide whether Denmark should join the eur...
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Payments intermediation proceeding more smoothly to and from the UK
PRESS RELEASE FROM THE CENTRAL BANK OF ICELAND: Payment intermediation to and from the United Kingdom is proceeding much more smoothly than before. Ho...
Scandinavian airline Sterling goes belly up
The latest budget airline to call it quits is Copenhagen-based Sterling, which announced on 29 October that it was cancelling all flights immediately....
Copenhagen gets radical new mega-mall
Copenhagen is planning to set another Nordic record by hosting Scandinavia’s largest shopping centre – despite the fact that Field’s is already in Cop...
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...
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...
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...