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The General Council of the Riksbank finds no conflict of interest in connection with monetary policy decisions
17/12/2021 -Some media have claimed that Stefan Ingves and Cecilia Skingsley will not have been impartial when they made monetary policy decisions on the purchase of corporate bonds in the secondary market. This has prompted the General Council to make an...
Forum being established to increase the use of transaction-based reference rates
08/06/2022 -The Riksbank considers that fully transaction-based reference rates are more reliable than assessment-based interbank rates, and that the increased use of transaction-based reference rates contributes to the promotion of financial stability. This...
Ben S. Bernanke, Douglas W. Diamond and Philip H. Dybvig awarded the Prize in Economic Sciences for 2022
10/10/2022 -The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 2022 (the Nobel Prize in Economics) to Ben S. Bernanke, Douglas W. Diamond and Philip H. Dybvig for their...
The Riksbank's survey of turnover in the Swedish foreign exchange and derivatives market
27/10/2022 -Turnover on the foreign exchange market in Sweden 2022 has increased substantially since 2019. During the same period, the turnover interest rate derivatives declined significantly. This was observed in the survey of turnover in the Swedish...
Executive Board in open hearing on monetary policy
21/10/2025 -On Tuesday, the Executive Board took part in an open hearing at the Riksdag (Parliamentary) Committee on Finance about current monetary policy. Governor Erik Thedéen began by presenting the most recent interest rate decision, when the policy...
Smaller banks are also important when assessing systemic risk in the banking sector
21/10/2025 -The market-based systemic risk measure SRISK is used to estimate banks' expected capital shortfalls in a crisis. For the first time, the calculations include all Swedish banks. The results show that the major banks account for most of the...
Anna Sjulander new Head of Markets Department
18/11/2025 -The Executive Board of the Riksbank has appointed Anna Sjulander as new Head of the Markets Department.
Erik Thedéen: Central banks must constantly earn their independence
01/12/2025 -Independent central banks contribute to a stable and prosperous economy, said Erik Thedéen when SNS and the Riksbank organised a discussion on central bank independence and mandates. However, this independence cannot be taken for granted.
Difficult to make forecasts when conditions change drastically
19/01/2024 -Neither the central banks nor other forecasters predicted how quickly inflation would rise in 2021 and 2022, and inflation forecasts accordingly showed major forecasting errors. The Riksbank's forecasting ability for 2021 was good. In 2022 it...
The Riksbank publishes the IMF's statement on the Swedish economy
05/02/2024 -A delegation from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) today concludes 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.