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Pots, kettles and Moscow’s mayor

09.11.09

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Kaupthing’s loan book is tale of woe

10.08.09

The leaked loan book of collapsed Icelandic bank Kaupthing reads like a who’s who of some of the credit crunch’s biggest losers ... more

Spurs chairman Levy used club’s shares to get Ł40m loan

06.08.09

Shares in Tottenham Hotspur were used as collateral for a loan by the football club’s chairman Daniel Levy and Bahamas-based billionaire Joe Lewis, according to the loan book of collapsed Icelandic bank Kaupthing ... more

Bank grabs Spurs chief’s jet

20.07.09

Jet belonging to the Tottenham Hotspur chairman Daniel Levy has been repossessed in a dispute over unpaid mortgage payments... more

Still counting UK's cost of Icelandic meltdown

08.05.09

A hint of calm, but certainly not normality, is returning to the busted Nordic economy thanks to the International Monetary Fund's $10 billion bailout. But for many UK investors the story isn't over... more

Queen's bank chief did not see cold front

08.05.09

Michael Morley is the new chief executive of the Queen's bank Coutts & Co. The boss of Royal Bank of Scotland's poshest offshoot used to be head of wealth management at Singer & Friedlander, owned by Icelandic bank Kaupthing which is now in administration... more

Kaupthing collapse keeps yachts hanging

27.04.09

A host of wealthy individuals who ordered new yachts could be left empty-handed in the wake of the collapse of Icelandic bank Kaupthing. ... more

I’ll turn West End building site into the grow-bag allotments

21.04.09

The abandoned “Noho Square” development could be turned into allotments where residents grow fruit and vegetables in large, portable “grow bags”... more

Beleaguered Baugur sells its stake in Debenhams

31.03.09

Collapsed Icelandic banks Baugur and Kaupthing were dumping stock in some of the UK's best-known retailers in a dash for cash... more

Mosaic deal saves 8,700 jobs, while leaving more than 4,000 at risk

02.03.09

Retail: Icelandic bank Kaupthing put Britain's Mosaic Fashions into administration and immediately announced a deal to buy back some of its brands, saving around 8,700 jobs while leaving about 4,170 at risk... more

Singer chief ‘warned against Iceland deal’

03.02.09

Banking: The former chief executive of Singer & Friedlander, which was sold to failed Icelandic bank Kaupthing in 2005, warned the Financial Services Authority not to allow the bank to go ahead with the takeover, a leaked memo says ... more

Darling's 'duty to repay councils'

03.02.09

Chancellor Alistair Darling fuelled the run on Iceland's banks and has a "moral" obligation to help repay the Ł1billlion lost by British councils as a result, MPs were told... more

It’s far from quiet on the western front

12.01.09

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Iceland bank to sue Britain over freezing of assets

06.01.09

The Icelandic bank which had its British offshoot placed into administration by Gordon Brown at the height of the autumn credit crisis is to sue the Government over the move... more

Ideal Shopping cuts jobs in trade plunge

10.12.08

Retail: TV shopping channels group Ideal Shopping has said that trading had fallen off a cliff in November... more

Management steps in to buy out Singer

30.10.08

From the ashes of Kaupthing Singer & Friedlander (KSF) emerged a phoenix, in the shape of a management buyout renaming itself Singer Capital Markets... more

Candys drop out of Noho plan and default on Ł221m loan

30.10.08

The Candy brothers have abandoned a flagship property scheme in London and failed to repay a loan for a project in Beverly Hills... more

Oxford University has Ł30m stuck in Iceland

16.10.08

The full scale of the Iceland bank crash's impact on British institutions is emerging... more

Icelandic boss bought home for Ł10.5m

15.10.08

The boss of an Icelandic bank bought a home in west London for Ł10.5million just months before his bank collapsed, it is claimed... more

Candys at war with troubled Icelandic bank

14.10.08

A bitter dispute has erupted between developers Nick and Christian Candy and troubled Icelandic bank Kaupthing... more

Bank default sees Candys take control of projects

10.10.08

Property tycoons Nick and Christian Candy have taken over two luxury residential projects after partner Kaupthing, an Icelandic bank, defaulted on loan agreements.... more

Charities beg for Icelandic savings to be protected

10.10.08

An emergency summit between Britain’s leading charities and the Treasury was held as it emerged that voluntary groups are engulfed by the Icelandic banking crisis... more

Caution key for Candys as super-flats scene changes

10.10.08

Christian Candy, 35, and his brother Nick, 33, have had quite a week. ... more

Darling blamed as Iceland’s bank troubles spiral

09.10.08

Iceland turns on Britain’s Chancellor Alistair Darling as a third bank is nationalised... more

Chef Ramsay took KS&F out of the mix

09.10.08

Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay was alongside the local councils and thousands of individuals who put their cash into an Icelandic bank account ... more

The Candy brothers in bid to save US project

08.10.08

UK Property tycoons Nick and Christian Candy and their Icelandic banking partners locked in last-ditch talks to save an ambitious development in the US... more

Tycoon dumps Sainsbury stake

08.10.08

J Sainsbury was the focus of intense City gossip after it emerged that Iranian property tycoon Robert Tchenguiz has offloaded his stake in the supermarkets chain... more

Iceland freezes all bank share trades

06.10.08

Banking: Trading in the shares of all Iceland’s banks and financial institutions was suspended on the Nordic Exchange ahead of a long-awaited bailout plan from the government... more