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Straumborg ehf., a company financially related to Brynja Halldórsdóttir, a board member of Kaupthing Bank hf., has today, 11 December 2007, bought 7,404,531 shares in the Bank at the price of 867 ISK...

Name of party notifying: Gnúpur Fjárfestingafélag hf. Address of the party notifying: Laugavegur 182, 105 Reykjavík Date of transaction: 6.12.2007 Number of shares in transaction: 4,603,687 Number...

Fitch Ratings today announced that Kaupthing Bank's ratings were affirmed at Long-term IDR 'A', Short-term IDR 'F1', Individual 'B/C', Support '2' and Support Rating Floor 'BBB'. Fitch has changed...

Moody's Investors Service has announced that the Aa3/C ratings of Kaupthing Bank hf ("Kaupthing") remain under review for possible downgrade. Kaupthing was placed on review following the...

Kaupthing Bank ("Kaupthing") is today announcing the completion of the financing of its acquisition of NIBC. Kaupthing is also announcing that its exposure to structured credit will be reduced...

Moody's Investors Service has today sent out a Credit Analysis of Kaupthing Bank - see link below: http://www.kaupthing.com/Investors/Ratings/Moody's...

Kaupthing Bank hf. ("Kaupthing") has agreed with Derbyshire Building Society ("Derbyshire") to acquire the entire issued share capital of Derbyshire's offshore deposit-taking business The Derbyshire...

Nettoresultat 60,2 miljarder ISK (683 miljoner EUR) - Nettoresultatet efter minoritetsandelar för de första nio månaderna uppgick till 60,2 miljarder ISK, en ökning med 31,3 procent jämfört med...

Net earnings of ISK 60.2 billion (EUR 683 million) - Shareholders' net earnings for the first nine months of ISK 60.2 billion, increasing by 31.3% compared with the same period in 2006. Earnings...

Kaupthing Bank has decided to support Storebrand's acquisition of the Swedish life insurance and pension provider SPP at Storebrand's Extraordinary General Meeting on the 24th of October. Kaupthing...