The Ministry of Finance presents the Treasury‘s Medium Term Debt Management Strategy for 2012-2015.

The Parliament of Iceland has approved two amendments to the capital controls regime in an attempt to halt increasing circumvention through the bond market and possible negative effects of large capital flows originating from the winding-up process of the failed Icelandic banks.

In March, the Treasury of Iceland and the Central Bank of Iceland will prepay loans from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Nordic countries in the amount of 116 b.kr.

EuroWeek magazine has selected the bond issue of Iceland among the best in their choice of the best bond issues for 2011.

Mrs. Oddný G. Harðardóttir, is Iceland´s new Minister of Finance. She was appointed on the 31. December 2011 and is the first woman in Iceland to hold this position. She is a member of The Social Democratic Alliance and has been member of the Parliament since 2009.

The bilateral loan facilities negotiated between the Nordic countries and Poland, on the one hand, and Iceland, on the other, in connection with the authorities' IMF-supported economic programme, amount to a total of €1,930 m.