Vittorio Hernandez – AHN News Reykjavik, Iceland (AHN) – Iceland will start repaying a $3.45 billion (EUR 2.6 billion) from Britain in 2016. Reykjavik owed the amount to London after the online Icesave Bank failed two years ago. The agreement to repay ends two years of dispute over interest rates between the two countries after [...]
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Iceland to repay Britain $3.45 billion debt due to Icesave Bank failure
December 10th, 2010 
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