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					   Although many 
					offshore subsidiaries of mostly British-based banks and 
					building societies in the Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey 
					offer a parental guarantee for all sums deposited with them, 
					the Crown Dependencies fall outside the jurisdiction of both 
					the United Kingdom's Financial Services Authority guarantee 
					to underwrite the first £50,000 per depositor per bank and 
					the European Economic Area 'passport scheme' that pays a 
					minimum of £16,000 per depositor per bank in the case of a 
					default. In 1991, the Isle of Man introduced a bank 
					depositors' insurance scheme to cover 75 percent of the 
					first £15,000 per depositor per bank, but it was the October 
					2008 crisis-stricken Icelandic government's seizure of 
					Kaupthing Bank hf in Iceland after the United Kingdom 
					suspended the trading licence of Kaupthing's British 
					subsidiary that compelled a radical revision of deposit 
					insurance in the Isle of Man. Unable to secure reserves held 
					by Kaupthing hf in Iceland or Kaupthing's British subsidiary 
					to facilitate customer withdrawals, Kaupthing Singer and 
					Friedlander (Isle of Man) Ltd. saw its Isle of Man banking 
					licence suspended after operating less than a year, 
					compelling the firm to request to be wound up. The Isle of 
					Man government called an emergency session of the Tynwald 
					parliament which voted unanimously to bring the Isle of Man 
					depositors' compensation scheme into line with the newly-enlarged 
					scheme in the United Kingdom, guaranteeing with immediate 
					effect 100 percent of the first £50,000 per depositor per 
					bank, and studying amendments for the subsequent inclusion 
					within the scheme of corporate and charitable accounts. The 
					Isle of Man government also pressed the Icelandic government 
					to honour Kaupthing hf's irrevocable and binding guarantee 
					of all depositors' funds held by Kaupthing, Singer and 
					Friedlander (Isle of Man) Ltd. In Jersey and Guernsey, 
					deposit insurance schemes for non-residents have yet to be 
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