Mapping the meltdown across the Atlantic.

Oct. 6: Belgian insurance operations and some of banking business to be sold to French bank BNP Paribas for 14.5 billion euros; remainder of banking business to be sold to Belgian government.

Bank: Glitnir Bank; commercial bank

Head office: Reykjavík, Iceland

Assets: 3 trillion Icelandic kroner (around 15.3 billion euros) in assets (2007)