Global financial crisis in October 2008 while Kaupthing was subjected to a rescue plan. On October 6, the Icelandic Financial Supervisory Authority decided temporarily to suspend from trading on regulated markets all financial instruments issued by Glitnir banki hf., Kaupþing banki hf., Landsbanki Íslands hf., Straumur-Burðarás fjárfestingarbanki hf., Spron hf., and Exista hf. Before the opening of the business day, October 6. BNP Paribas, the French bank, assumed control of the remaining assets of Fortis following Dutch nationalization of the operations of the bank in The Netherlands. Denmark, Austria, and possibly Germany, joined Ireland and Greece in guaranteeing bank deposits on Monday, October 6. Following this,
Temporary Liquidity Guarantee Program 31, 2012. The Senate on 12/13/12 failed to advance legislation (S. 3637) that would have provided a two-year extension of the Transaction Account Guarantee program, practically guaranteeing that the program will expire as scheduled on Dec. 31. Temporary Liquidity Guarantee Program The Temporary Liquidity Guarantee Program (TLGP) is a program adopted by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) on October 13, 2008 during the global financial crisis of 2008 to encourage liquidity in the interbank lending market. Several of the stated purposes of this program are (1) "to decrease the cost of bank funding so that bank lending to consumers