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Cecilia Skingsley to become new Head of the BIS Innovation Hub
07/06/2022 -Cecilia Skingsley has been appointed new Head of the BIS Innovation Hub at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). Skingsley will therefore leave her post as First Deputy Governor of the Riksbank on 15 August 2022.
Minutes of the Monetary Policy Meeting held on 29 June 2022
11/07/2022 -The Riksbank needs to prevent high inflation becoming entrenched in price- and wage-setting, and to ensure that inflation returns to the target. The Executive Board therefore decided at its monetary policy meeting on 29 June to increase the...
Policy rate raised by 1 percentage point
20/09/2022 -Inflation is too high. It is undermining households’ purchasing power and making it more difficult for both companies and households to plan their finances. Monetary policy now needs to be tightened further to bring inflation back to the target.
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...
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.
Settlement of money and securities in central bank money reduces risk
20/02/2024 -In times of change, it is important that the actors in the financial system work to provide safe systems for the settlement of money and securities. Lena Wiberg writes in a new Economic Commentary that one way of reducing risks in settlement is...
Why is fintech of interest to authorities?
19/05/2022 -Why is fintech of interest to authorities? The fintech sector can improve the efficiency in the financial system and lead to financial services being cheaper and better. But it also gives rise to different kinds of challenges for authorities.
The possible impact of the digital euro on Sweden
14/05/2024 -Eurosystem central banks are well advanced in their efforts to design a central bank digital currency, known as a digital euro. A digital euro is mainly intended for use within the euro area. However, a legislative proposal from the European...