Iceland and the International Monetary Fund was to stem capital outflows, to restore confidence in the Icelandic economy and to thus stabilize the Icelandic Krona (ISK) 2008–2011 Icelandic financial crisis. Measures adopted by Iceland included an emergency nationalization of the failing banks, a vote of the Icelandic parliament gave the FME (Icelandic Financial Supervisory Authority) broad authority over the insolvent banks. FME proceeded to audit these banks and to split their assets. Measures were also introduced to increase the minimum capital adequacy ratio of the banks to 10% as a part of the effort to re establish confidence in the economy. As a part of these
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