Bloomberg 25 Sep 2013: Kaupthing Rejects Krona Asset Write downs Sought by Government
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The caretakers of Kaupthing Bank hf won’t ask creditors in the failed lender to accept writedowns on their krona-denominated claims, a step the government says is necessary to end the island’s capital controls.
“The winding up committee is obliged by law to preserve the value of Kaupthing’s assets,” Johannes Runar Johannsson, a member of Kaupthing’s winding-up committee, said in an interview last week in London. “It’s therefore difficult, or even impossible, to see how the winding-up committee could make such a recommendation, given its legal duties.”
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