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Global environment puts pressure on payments system resilience
10/03/2025 -To strengthen the resilience of the payment system, it urgently needs to be possible to pay offline with cards and use cash to pay for essential goods. Both public and private payments market actors need to take action to increase payments...
New strategic allocation of gold and foreign exchange reserves and unchanged currency hedging
01/04/2025 -The Riksbank has decided on a new strategic allocation of the gold and foreign exchange reserves, which includes a few new eurozone countries being introduced into the foreign exchange reserves. In addition, the current currency hedging will be...
Renovation of the Riksbank building
17/06/2025 -The Riksbank building on Brunkebergstorg was opened in 1976 and is in need of extensive renovation. The Executive Board of the Riksbank has now taken an initial decision on the direction for the renovation.
How would the Swedish economy be affected by a fiscal tightening in the USA?
23/10/2025 -The US federal government’s debt-to-GDP ratio is close to historically high levels and many analysts say that this development is not sustainable. This Economic Commentary estimates the impact on the Swedish economy in a hypothetical scenario...
Behind the trend in long-term interest rates...
23/04/2024 -Behind the trend in long-term interest rates... One of the more prominent macroeconomic trends in recent decades has been the prolonged negative trend in nominal and real interest rates (see Figure 1).[3] The real interest rate is approximately...
FAQ on new publication time and new source for exchange rates
27/11/2023 -27/11/2023: Changes have been made with regard to the Riksbank’s service “Search interest rates and exchange rates”. For exchange rates, the ECB (European Central Bank) has become a new source and, as a result, new exchange rate quotations is...
What does legislation and international principles say?
20/02/2024 -What does legislation and international principles say? The Riksbank oversees the financial market infrastructures to identify and limit the risks they may pose to financial stability[5] The Riksbank’s oversight of the financial infrastructure .
Safety and efficiency
15/12/2022 -Safety and efficiency Payments in Sweden are generally safe and efficient. Digitalisation makes them faster and easier, and improvements in the Riksbank’s services increase safety and efficiency. But digitalisation also brings problems. For...
Ingves at the Riksdag Committee on Finance: We are safeguarding the inflation target
20/10/2022 -The high inflation creates problems. It erodes purchasing power – especially for the least well-off – and makes it difficult for both households and businesses to plan their finances. Therefore, the Riksbank, which has been given the task by the...
Monetary Policy Report, June 2022
30/06/2022 -Inflation has continued to rise rapidly and price increases are spreading through the economy. To ensure that inflation returns to the target and to counteract the high inflation becoming entrenched in price setting and wage formation, the...