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Basel III and the major Swedish banks’ capital requirements
15/01/2018 -The Basel III Accord is now complete and is intended to be introduced in full on 1 January 2027. The major Swedish banks’ minimum capital requirements are expected to increase form their current levels as a result of this, but their total...
The Riksbank is reviewing its Risk Survey
15/01/2018 -The Riksbank has begun a review of its Risk Survey and therefore no Risk Survey will be carried out in autumn 2017. This means that the report Market participants’ views on risks and the functioning of the Swedish fixed-income and foreign...
Stricter amortisation requirement is good
15/01/2018 -The Riksbank welcomes Finansinspektionen's proposal for stricter amortisation requirements. Measures to increase households’ resilience are necessary and should be introduced as quickly as possible. It is also important that the amortisation...
Methods for stress tests of banks evaluated by researchers
15/01/2018 -Austrian researchers have evaluated methods for stress tests of the banking system on behalf of the Riksbank and Finansinspektionen.
Good atmosphere at the Riksbank
17/01/2018 -Riksbank employees feel there is a good atmosphere at the bank and give their managers high marks. This is revealed in the latest employee survey.
Sharp rise in number of borrowers among older people
20/03/2018 -The average debt-to-income ratio of households increased from 289 to 311 per cent between 2010 and 2016. During the same period, the median debt-to-income ratio rose from 221 to 258 per cent. The number of people aged around 35 who borrow – the...
The Riksbank wants to extend the operating hours for RIX
27/04/2018 -The Riksbank's payment services need to be modernised to meet the demands for speed and accessibility. For this reason the Riksbank wishes to extend the operating hours in the Riksbank's settlement system for large-value payments (RIX) and is...
Next step: a technical solution for the e-krona
26/10/2018 -“The next step in the Riksbank's work on the e-krona should be to build an e-krona to learn more and test which solutions are viable and possible to realise,” says Eva Julin, project manager of the Riksbank's e-krona project. A technical...
The major banks Pillar 1 requirements will increase
30/10/2018 -The major Swedish banks have for a long time now needed to meet several different types of capital requirement. They are often divided up into so-called Pillar 1 and Pillar 2 requirements. Finansinspektionen has recently decided to move the...
Swedish Bankers’ Association forms working group for alternative to Stibor
04/12/2018 -Around the world there are currently various projects to produce complements and/or alternatives to the current reference rates for financial contracts, partly because these provide a poor reflection of the actual interbank transactions. The...