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September 29, 2008: Icelandic Government Takes Large Stake in Local Bank

2008-09-29

The government of Iceland takes a 75 percent stake in the country’s third-largest bank, Glitnir, after the bank runs into short-term funding problems. [BBC, 2/2/2009]