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The Swedish retail payments council on payments in a crisis
16/10/2018 -If the communication between a bank and a shop does not work, it is in some cases nevertheless possible to shop using a bank card. This possibility for so-called off-line payments differs between cards, however. Withdrawing cash from an ATM in a...
All banks should be obliged to handle cash
22/10/2018 -The Riksbank mainly welcomes the Riksbank Committee’s proposal to impose an obligation on most major banks to offer access to cash services throughout Sweden. But the Riksbank wishes to go a step further. “It is our opinion that all banks and...
The Riksbank’s new information campaign for old coins
14/01/2018 -There is now only around three months left until the older 1, 2 and 5-krona coins become invalid. There are still 1.4 billion coins to a value of over SEK 2 billion out in circulation. The weight of the coins is equal to 25 fully-loaded Jumbo...
Government bond purchases extended by SEK 15 billion, repo rate unchanged at −0.50 per cent, rate increases postponed
14/01/2018 -Economic activity in Sweden is increasingly strong, but the Riksbank now assesses that it will take longer before inflation stabilises around 2 per cent. There is still considerable uncertainty over political and economic developments abroad.
Next step: a technical solution for the e-krona
26/10/2018 -“The next step in the Riksbank's work on the e-krona should be to build an e-krona to learn more and test which solutions are viable and possible to realise,” says Eva Julin, project manager of the Riksbank's e-krona project. A technical...
The major banks Pillar 1 requirements will increase
30/10/2018 -The major Swedish banks have for a long time now needed to meet several different types of capital requirement. They are often divided up into so-called Pillar 1 and Pillar 2 requirements. Finansinspektionen has recently decided to move the...
E-krona theme in new edition of Economic Review
05/11/2018 -The Riksbank is investigating the possibility and consequences of introducing a Swedish central bank digital currency, a so-called e-krona. The latest issue of our journal Economic Review is a special theme issue discussing the e-krona from...
Eberstein continues as Chairperson of the General Council
21/11/2018 -At the inaugural meeting of the Riksbank's General Council, held today, Susanne Eberstein and Michael Lundholm were re-elected as Chairperson and Vice Chairperson of the General Council. The General Council of the Riksbank consists of eleven...
Swedish Bankers’ Association forms working group for alternative to Stibor
04/12/2018 -Around the world there are currently various projects to produce complements and/or alternatives to the current reference rates for financial contracts, partly because these provide a poor reflection of the actual interbank transactions. The...
Minutes from the Financial Stability Council meeting on 4 December 2018
11/12/2018 -Representatives for the Swedish Government, Finansinspektionen, Sveriges Riksbank and the Swedish National Debt Office met on 4 December to discuss the general stability situation, the need for analyses and possible measures, as well as upcoming...