Iceland and the International Monetary Fund Intent. The conditionalities include details of Banking Sector restructuring, changes to Fiscal Policy including government austerity and changes to exchange rate policies. Following the global financial crisis in 2007-2008 Iceland's banking sector collapsed leading to wide ranging unemployment and a lessening of support for the Icelandic currency - the Icelandic Krona ISK. This was triggered by an insolvency of the private banking sector. The largest Icelandic banks had liabilities in excess of 80 percent of GDP . Iceland requested assistance from the IMF and from its Nordic partners in the Nordic Council. The goal of Iceland in this market intervention
Iceland and the International Monetary Fund only 0.09% of all IMF vote shares, or 4,683 votes to be exact. = History of IMF - Iceland relations = As of November 2018, Iceland has had 4 arrangements with the IMF. The borrowing arrangements Iceland has initiated with the IMF total 1,190% , in excess of its normal quota ( amounting to 18% of Iceland's total GDP in the year they were initiated ). This is the greatest amount the IMF has loaned a single country as a proportion of GDP. The conditionalities of Iceland's IMF programmes are based on terms as laid out in Iceland's Letter of