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Market for green bonds in Sweden growing rapidly
15/12/2020 -In recent years, the market for green bonds has grown significantly and in Sweden the market is large, in an international perspective. It is therefore important, from a financial stability perspective, that the Riksbank should understand and...
Strategy for the Riksbank’s sustainability work
17/12/2020 -The Riksbank works both to strengthen sustainability in its internal operations and to adjust policy work to more sustainable development. This is shown by the Riksbank's new sustainability strategy.
BIS innovation hub requires amendment to the Sveriges Riksbank Act
06/03/2020 -The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has recently started to establish innovation hubs at selected sites around the world. The aim is to analyse technical financial innovations more closely. An amendment to the Sveriges Riksbank Act is...
Home equity extraction activities in Sweden
15/05/2020 -Estimates suggest that one-third of mortgage borrowers in Sweden have extracted home equity at least once during the period 2010 – 2017. Home equity extraction raises the debt-to-income ratio of households by 50-70 percentage points, which may...
The Riksbank is strengthening the risk buffer
13/01/2021 -The financial risks on the Riksbank’s balance sheet have increased, due in part to the monetary policy measures implemented in 2020 to mitigate the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on the Swedish economy. The Riksbank has therefore decided to...
Riksbank publishes the IMF’s report on Sweden’s economy
02/02/2021 -A delegation from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) today completes its annual visit to Sweden. The visit forms part of the regular consultations that the IMF has with its member countries, the so-called Article IV consultations. This year,...
Can equity price movements be better explained when taking interest rates directly into account?
02/11/2021 -Equity valuation metrics, such as the cyclically adjusted P/E (CAPE) ratio, can help explain subsequent stock price movements in Sweden. This is one of the conclusions in a new staff memo where the authors evaluate the explanatory power of two...
The development of risk premiums on covered bonds during the coronavirus pandemic
08/11/2021 -In this Economic Commentary, the author examines how yields on covered bonds, also commonly known as mortgage bonds, developed during the coronavirus pandemic until the beginning of the summer of this year. Like all market rates, these yields...
Watch out for fake 500-krona banknotes
12/03/2021 -The number of police reports concerning counterfeit 500-krona banknotes has increased sharply. The counterfeits are often of low quality and there are several simple ways of checking that a banknote is genuine.
Ingves and Jansson at the Riksdag Committee on Finance: Monetary policy supporting recovery and inflation
16/03/2021 -The Swedish economy has withstood the second wave of infection relatively well, supported by extensive economic policy measures. This comment was made by Governor Stefan Ingves in his introduction, when he and Deputy Governor Per Jansson took...