Fashion chain All Saints is saved from collapse after a consortium led by the owner of clothing retailers La Senza and American Apparel stepped in to rescue the company... more
As the spotlight fell back on the collapse of Icelandic bank Kaupthing with yesterday's arrests, it emerged that All Saints, the fashion chain owned by retail entrepreneur Kevin Stanford, whose empire was backed by loans from Reykjavik, is also facing its own crisis... more
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
Retail: Icelandic holding company Baugur, which has major retail interests in Britain including stakes in House of Fraser and Hamleys has applied for court protection after restructuring talks with its lenders failed... more
ICELANDIC tremors among the power-hungry politicos at Barnet council, which, as readers of City Spy will recall, managed to blow a stonking £28 million of taxpayers’ money in Glitnir and Landsbanki.... more
Iceland is to get its $6 billion rescue package from an International Monetary Fund-led consortium, according to Poland, one of the contributors... more
Eagle-eyed observers who managed to take their eyes off the on-track action at Sunday’s nailbiting Brazilian Grand Prix may have noticed trackside hoardings for a company called Form - a company owned by Petra Ecclestone... more
Pressure is mounting for an in-depth investigation into the big three credit rating agencies, which stand accused of missing banking problems ranging from Iceland to the US subprime mortgage crisis ... more
The main 2012 Olympics host authority has become the latest London borough to face losing millions of taxpayers' money in the Icelandic bank collapse... more
Property tycoons Nick and Christian Candy have taken over two luxury residential projects after partner Kaupthing, an Icelandic bank, defaulted on loan agreements.... more
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
A billion pounds of taxpayers’ money is frozen in Iceland. Yet all the empty promises should have been exposed by UK regulators and rating agencies... more
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
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
With holdings in companies from Iceland to Hamleys, Jon Asgeir Johannesson has forged an empire here. But the Reykjavik entrepreneur could fall victim to the credit crunch... more
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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