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The Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs has released the Medium-Term DebtManagement Strategy (MTDS) for 2017-2021. Since 2011, the MTDS has been issued over a horizon of three years. In accordanc...

Statistics for Treasury finances for January-August. 2016 are now available. Treasury finances January-August 2016

Members of the Council: Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs Bjarni Benediktsson, Chairman; Már Guðmundsson, Governor of the Central Bank; Unnur Gunnarsdóttir, Director General of the Financial Su...

The fourth meeting of the Financial Stability Council in 2016 was held on Friday 30 September at the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs. Macroeconomic conditions have been broadly favourable for...

The Foreign Ministers of the three Baltic States and Iceland attended a signing ceremony yesterday in Reykjavík, to mark the 25th anniversary of the reestablishment of diplomatic relations and Icelan...

Iceland's Parliament has unanimously adopted the Foreign Minister's proposal to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Furthermore the Parliament agreed that the Optiona...

During a high-level UN event in New York, marking the entry into force of the United Nations Paris Agreement, Iceland's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Lilja Alfreðsdóttir, announced today that Iceland ...

On September 19, 1996 in Ottawa, the Arctic Council was established as a high level intergovernmental forum to enhance cooperation, coordination and interaction among the Arctic States with the active...

Minister for Foreign Affairs, Lilja Alfreðsdóttir, has put forward a resolution to Parliament on the ratification of the United Nations' Paris Agreement. The Agreement, which was approved last Decembe...

The Government of Iceland has decided, following consultation with the Financial Supervisory Authority and the Central Bank of Iceland, that there is no reason for the declaration concerning the blank...

On 1 September the Althingi Parliament approved, with no dissenting votes, a Bill of law on National Security Council, that was submitted to Althingi last spring by Lilja Alfreðsdóttir, Minister for F...

Statistics for Treasury finances for January-July 2016 are now available. Treasury finances January-July 2016  

Moody's Investors Service (MIS) has today upgraded Iceland's government bond and issuer ratings to A3 from Baa2. The rating outlook is stable. This rating action concludes the reviewfor upgrade that c...

Individuals' and companies' freedom to transfer funds to and from Iceland and to carry out foreign exchange transactions will increase greatly, according to the bill of legislation that the Minister o...

Statistics for Treasury finances for January-June 2016 are now available. Treasury finances January-June 2016

Guðni Th. Jóhannesson took office yesterday, 1 August, as the 6th President of the Republic of Iceland. He signed the oath of office during a ceremony at the Parliament of Iceland, Alþingi, and was gr...

This is an English translation. The original Icelandic text, as published in the is the authoritative text. Should there be discrepancy between this translation and the authoritative text, the latter ...

„The Icelandic government has followed recent events in Turkey very closely and expresses its concerns about the situation, which has become very serious“, says Lilja Alfredsdóttir, Minister for Forei...

This week international rating agency Fitch Ratings held a global portfolio rating committee related to an overhaul of the Agency's sovereign methodology released on May 26th, 2016. The results of the...

International rating agency Standard & Poor's has affirmed Iceland's sovereign ratings at BBB+/A-2 with a stable outlook. Standard & Poor's expects economic growth in Iceland to remain strong ...