Iceland’s financial supervisory authority: Tight supervision
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“We didn’t foresee the increased real estate activity. We made changes to the Housing Financing Fund. The banks came into the market aggressively, and interest rates went down and prices up. The timing had the effect of increasing pressure on the economy” Árni Mathiesen, finance minister, Iceland |
Why did the events of February and March take place and is there anything that the government could have done to prevent them? The krona was overvalued; to some extent it’s as simple as what goes up, must come down.
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