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Cyprus's president hoped to keep the island an attractive haven for foreign depositors.

Banks that operate abroad under the European "passport" scheme, whereby deposit-guarantee schemes in the bank's home country are the first port of call for foreign depositors, may well seem less attractive to savers in light of recent events.

The Icelanders have borrowed from the IMF, with their negotiations made more complex by a dispute with Britain and the Netherlands over compensation for foreign depositors in one of its big banks.

Iceland is about to provide a specific test of this theory in a referendum, in which voters are being asked to accept or reject the terms for compensating foreign depositors in failed Icelandic banks.However, the efforts of Canada and Sweden suggest progress can be made, if the crisis is acute enough.

The first country to throw its government out of office as a result of the global financial crisis, Icelanders could see the government that replaced it topple too, leaving the country rudderless — unless it wins approval for a deal to repay Britain and the Netherlands the $5.7 billion loan it used to compensate foreign depositors for losses in Icelandic banks.

The government's challenge is to convince investors that it can engineer a soft landing for the economy, dissuading foreign depositors from withdrawing their savings.

Countries in the G20 have been pushing hard for low-tax countries such as Switzerland to provide information on foreign depositors.

The report, on Russian Wave radio, said that Mr. Kerry had telephoned Cyprus's finance minister and told him Washington was ready to help out, as long as Cyprus guaranteed a bigger role for the United States in gas concessions and raised the levy on large foreign depositors, many of them Russians, to 15 percent.

Foreign depositors, including Russians and Britons, hold an outsized share of the uninsured deposits.

That many of those foreign depositors are Russian was not lost on those involved.

The court also cleared Iceland of complaints that it violated nondiscrimination rules when it protected domestic depositors but not foreign depositors in Icesave.