SDA ministers have been nonetheless no longer but concerned. Mutual animosity among Oddsson and the SDA Minister for trade, Mr Björgvin Sigurðsson, used to be such that they can no longer occupy an analogous room – the governor of the vital financial institution and the minister liable for banking weren't on talking phrases. The note was once, besides the fact that, getting out that Glitnir used to be in deep trouble. frightened that Glitnir’s downfall might deliver the others with it, Landsbanki was once desperately featuring an fast merger of the entire banks with executive backing. Kaupthing’s administration used to be offering an analogous situation. mistrust among the bankers and among them, the govt. and the valuable financial institution, despite the fact that, avoided them from achieving an contract in time. eventually, within the past due afternoon, SDA ministers have been educated and within the overdue night the competition heard the inside track. through the weekend, Glitnir’s board and executives have been more and more impatiently anticipating the imperative Bank’s answer. After being rebuffed for days, they have been ultimately referred to as to the financial institution on past due Sunday night. whilst assembly journalists within the foyer they can prior to the assembly began inform the reply to their request for emergency personal loan. contained in the critical Bank’s top-floor assembly room, Oddsson had laid out the one deal on supply. The relevant financial institution might certainly give you the funds wanted – now not as mortgage, even though, yet as fairness, for a seventy five in step with cent controlling stake within the financial institution. Glitnir was once to be de facto nationalized, leaving purely 25 in keeping with cent for its proprietors, who might lose 88 in keeping with cent worthy in their shears within the takeover. Oddsson dictated that Glitnir’s proprietors have been to provide their resolution sooner than the hole of the markets within the morning. He had already deliberate a press assembly for that point to announce the deal. surprised by means of the supply, Glitnir’s proprietors rushed in panic again to the bank’s headquarters, the place extra journalists awaited them. the sport was once up. there has been no time to discover replacement suggestions. A run at the financial institution might definitely begin while the doorways opened within the morning. Chased by way of the media through the evening, the bank’s board duly threw within the towel at holiday of sunrise on Monday morning. Jóhannesson has acknowledged that this was once the world’s maximum financial institution theft (Jóhannesson, 2008). His worst fears of what Oddsson will be cooking up within the days after Glitnir got here knocking at the primary Bank’s door had come actual. Oddsson’s plan used to be in response to his trust that the perceived power of the kingdom would supply a nationalized Glitnir with adequate credibility for you to climate the hurricane and at last make for a whimsical go back to the state’s coffers. first and foremost, it looked as if it would paintings. American Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman for instance introduced his approval (Krugman, 2008). quickly, besides the fact that, the opposite grew to become obvious. The perceived weak point of Glitnir as an alternative created elevated vulnerability for the kingdom, which had taken over the bank’s duties. The Icelandic country used to be consequently downgraded through overseas score companies, including the opposite banks.