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Efforts for smoother international payments
07/11/2019 -A number of banks and innovative companies abroad and in Sweden are taking various initiatives to make international payments easier. One example is the Utility Settlement Coin (USC), which is run by 13 major international banks. USC can be seen...
Payments within the EU are relatively rapid and inexpensive
07/11/2019 -Implementing a payment between two individuals with accounts in different banks requires information and money to be exchanged between the banks. An infrastructure is required for this to take place in a rapid, secure and straightforward manner.
Crimes linked to cash have fallen
07/11/2019 -As cash usage has fallen, the number of robberies aimed at stealing cash reported to the police has fallen sharply. This applies equally to bank robberies and to robberies of shops and cash-in-transit operations. Much of the reduction can...
Swedish payments are secure and efficient
07/11/2019 -Even if digital payments are simple and convenient, the development places new demands on security. The number of frauds with stolen card details or identities has increased, for example. Crimes linked to cash, such as bank or cash-in-transit...
Payment services and anti-money laundering activities
07/11/2019 -The Anti-Money Laundering Act provides another reason it has become more difficult to deposit cash at bank offices. This Act forces payment service providers to prevent their payment service operations from being abused for money laundering...
Access to payment services has deteriorated for some
07/11/2019 -The transformation of the payment market facilitated by the new technology is mostly beneficial. However, for some groups, primarily those who cannot or do not wish to use digital payment services, it can now be difficult to pay in certain...
International payments need to be streamlined
07/11/2019 -Payments to the EU are largely as fast and cheap as domestic payments. The same is true of payments within the global card networks such as Visa and Mastercard. Other international payments, on the other hand, are both slower and more expensive.
Digital cash: the e-krona project
07/11/2019 -The Riksbank is investigating whether it would be possible to issue kronor to the general public in electronic form, an “e-krona”. This would allow the general public access to the Riksbank’s money even in a cashless future. Digital cash: the...
Seven out of ten Swedes use Swish
07/11/2019 -The Swish payment app was launched at the end of 2012. It enables people to make instant, real-time payments from their payment account to other payment accounts. Since 2012, the number of payments made via the app has increased sharply. In...
Why are we no longer using cash?
07/11/2019 -More and more Swedes no longer use cash. In 2010, 39 per cent of the respondents in the Riksbank’s survey on payment habits in Sweden said that they paid for their most recent purchase in cash. In 2018, this figure had fallen to 13 per cent. At...