Calendar 2025

Sveriges Riksbank and SNS (the Center for Business and Policy Studies) are organising a discussion between Governor Erik Thedéen and former Governor of the Bank of Finland Erkki Liikanen on central bank independence.

Read more about the event on the SNS website.

The call will be broadcast live on riksbank.se and posted afterwards.

Erik Thedéen will be available on site for comments to the media after the event. For more information, please contact Chief Press Officer Tomas Lundberg, tomas.lundberg@riksbank.se, mobile: +46 070-246 61 57.

First Deputy Governor Aino Bunge presents a speech on developments in the payments market, focusing on stablecoins and the digital euro. Adrien d’Avernas, Associate Professor at the Swedish House of Finance and Stockholm School of Economics, comments on the speech.

Aino Bunge will be available on site for comments to the media after the event. For more information, please contact Press Officer Susanne Meyer, susanne.meyer@riksbank.se, mobile: +46 70 246 61 67.

Meeting of the retail payments council.

Governor Erik Thedéen participates in the Riksdag Committee on Finance’s open hearing on financial stability. The theme of the hearing with the Financial Stability Board is the impact on financial stability of the emergence of stablecoins, digital currencies and crypto-assets.

Read more about the event on the Riksdag’s website.

A summary will be published on riksbank.se.

The meeting is open to the general public and the media and can be followed live or afterwards via the Riksdag’s website.

Monetary policy meeting at which the Executive Board takes a decision on monetary policy including the policy rate.

The Executive Board’s monetary policy decision, including the decision on the policy rate, will be published together with the Monetary Policy Report for December 2025.

The decision on the level of the policy rate will apply from 7 January 2026.

The Riksbank is arranging a press conference on the monetary policy decision. The press conference will take place at the Riksbank, Brunkebergstorg 11. Press cards or the equivalent must be shown to attend. The press conference will be broadcast live at riksbank.se and on Youtube.

The minutes from the Executive Board's monetary policy discussion on 17 December 2025 will be published.