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Digital assets and currencies

Understand assets, networks and trading mechanics with sources you can check.

Trading basics

2016 Icelandic anti-government protests

The 2016 Icelandic anti-government protests were a series of protests against the Icelandic government following the release of the Panama Papers.

Banking

Glitnir (bank)

Glitnir was an international Icelandic bank. It was created by the state-directed merger of the country's three privately held banks - Alþýðubanki (Union Bank), Verzlunarbanki (Bank of Commerce) and Iðnaðarbanki (Industrial Bank) - and one failing publicly held bank - Útvegsbanki (Fisheries Bank) - to form Íslandsbanki in 1990. At the time, Íslandsbanki was the only major privately held