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High household indebtedness remains greatest risk in Swedish economy
22/05/2019 -High household indebtedness continues to pose the greatest risk in the Swedish economy. To address the fundamental causes of this high indebtedness, it is urgent that measures be taken in housing and tax policy.
Minutes of the Monetary Policy Meeting held on 4 September 2019
17/09/2019 -At the Monetary Policy Meeting on 4 September 2019, the Executive Board of the Riksbank decided to leave the repo rate unchanged at –0.25 per cent. As previously, the forecast for the repo rate indicates that the rate will be increased towards...
How the Riksbank creates money in times of crisis
11/06/2020 -The Riksbank and other central banks around the world have implemented extensive measures to alleviate the economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic on the economy. Many of the measures involve creating large volumes of new money. But how is...
The functioning of the fixed-income market has deteriorated due to the coronavirus pandemic
16/06/2020 -The functioning of the Swedish fixed-income market is considered to have deteriorated, compared with last autumn, due to the coronavirus pandemic. This is revealed by the Riksbank's Financial markets survey, which was carried out in April and...
New issue of the Riksbank’s journal Economic Review
18/06/2020 -The second issue of Sveriges Riksbank Economic Review in 2020 has a special theme, namely central bank digital currencies (CBDC) and the e-krona. Regular readers of the Economic Review may remember that there was a theme issue on the e-krona in...
Card payments still dominate
07/11/2019 -The majority of household purchases in Sweden are made by card. In ten years, the average Swede has doubled their card use. However, large-scale payments often take place between companies and authorities and are done via credit transfers. Card...
FAQs on funding for lending programmes
21/09/2021 -The Riksbank decided to terminate this programme on 20 September 2021. The last auction procedure of the programme was held on 10 September 2021. In this programme, the Riksbank offered funding to banks of up to SEK 500 billion against collateral...
Press conference on IMF assessment of Swedish economy
19/02/2019 -On Thursday, 21 February, a delegation from the International Monetary Fund, IMF, will complete its annual visit to Sweden. The visit forms part of the review of the economic situation that the IMF regularly carries out for each member country,...
Why are people in Sweden no longer using cash?
29/10/2020 -Apart from Sweden, it is only in Norway that the amount of cash in circulation has fallen over the last ten years. For Sweden, this may be due to measures making cash less attractive being introduced at about the same time as Swish was emerging as...