Jón Sigurdsson

Glitnir bank’s winding-up committee launches major court proceedings in New York

May 13, 2010

As I mentioned in the last post, another dude who’s feeling the heat right now is old Jón Ásgeir Jóhannesson, former owner of Glitnir bank, as is his wife and a handful of cronies. The Glitnir winding-up committee yesterday initiated court proceedings against them, as well as PriceWaterhouseCoopers, in New York. Yesterday it seemed that [...]

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The more things change, the more they stay the same, Vol. 2000-and-something

December 28, 2009

So, Íslandsbanki, nee Glitnir, has appointed a new chairman of the board. He is Jón Sigurðsson, former chairman of the board of the Financial Supervisory Authority. As some of you may remember, the FSA was supposed to regulate the banks and keep them from growing so big that their collapse would spell disaster for the [...]

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