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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...
Shortcomings in the corporate bond market need to be addressed
07/12/2021 -The outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic brought to light structural shortcomings and vulnerabilities in the Swedish corporate bond market. These shortcomings risk strengthening negative developments in the event of financial turbulence. To...
IMF to assess financial stability in Sweden
19/11/2021 -The International Monetary Fund (IMF) will conduct a review of the financial sector and the work of the authorities on financial stability, a so-called FSAP (Financial Sector Assessment Program) in 2022. FSAPs are conducted regularly for...
The General Council of the Riksbank makes an extended review
12/11/2021 -At its ordinary meeting today, the General Council of the Riksbank decided on an extended review of whether members of the Executive Board have violated any rules of conduct in connection with the Riksbank's drafting or decision-making on...
No significant increase in financially vulnerable firms during the first year of the pandemic
28/10/2021 -The total number of financially vulnerable firms did not increase significantly during the first year of the pandemic compared to 2019. This is shown in a new study by Cristina Cella of the Riksbank's Financial Stability Department. However,...
Flodén and Ingves at the Riksdag Committee on Finance Monetary policy needs to be sustained
19/10/2021 -The Swedish economy has recovered rapidly in the pandemic, supported by extensive economic policy measures. This comment was made by Governor Stefan Ingves in his introduction, when he and Deputy Governor Martin Flodén today took part in the...
Logotype for e-krona pilot test work
18/10/2021 -The Riksbank started a pilot project in 2019 to produce a proposal for a technical solution for an e-krona. Since then, the e-krona pilot has conducted development and testing work in a limited technical environment. The Riksbank has now produced...
David Card, Joshua D. Angrist and Guido W. Imbens awarded the Prize in Economic Sciences for 2021
11/10/2021 -The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 2021 (the Nobel Prize in Economics) to David Card for his empirical contributions to labour economics and...
The Riksbank today starts publishing average rates and an index for SWESTR
01/10/2021 -From today, the Riksbank will provide average rates and an index for SWESTR. The average rates can be used in new financial contracts and can also act as an alternative interest rate to be used in the event of STIBOR (Stockholm Interbank Offered...
The Riksbank wants to use the Eurosystem’s T2 and TARGET2-Securities platforms
23/09/2021 -The Executive Board of the Riksbank has decided that the preferred direction going forward is to use the Eurosystem’s platforms for settlement of payments and for securities settlement, T2 and TARGET2-Securities (T2S), respectively, for payments...