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Monetary Policy Report, February 2021
10/02/2021 -The Swedish economy has withstood the second wave of infection relatively well, supported by extensive economic policy measures. Vaccinations are now underway in many countries and despite continued uncertainty, the conditions for a rise in...
Monetary Policy Report, September 2020
22/09/2020 -The Swedish economy has now begun to recover after having fallen sharply in the spring. But the way back is long and fraught with uncertainty. To provide support to economic developments and help inflation to rise towards the target, the Riksbank...
Monetary Policy Report, December 2018
20/12/2018 -Economic activity is strong and the conditions are good for inflation to remain close to the inflation target in the period ahead. As inflation and inflation expectations have become established at around 2 per cent, the need for a highly...
Monetary Policy Report, February 2019
13/02/2019 -Economic developments in Sweden and abroad have entered a phase of lower growth. Although growth is more subdued, economic activity is still strong. The conditions for inflation to remain close to 2 per cent in the coming years have not changed...
Poorer access to cash at bank offices
03/11/2021 -In Sweden, the county administrative boards have the task of ensuring that the possibility to use basic payment services corresponds to the needs of society. Their assessment is that access to basic payment services for private persons is in...
Cross-border payments need to be faster and cheaper
03/11/2021 -Speed and ease of use are important for payments to be efficient. Apart from instant payments like Swish, payments between Sweden and the euro area generally function as smoothly as payments within Sweden. Payments to other countries, however,...
The Riksbank intends to use the Eurosystem’s payment platform
03/11/2021 -RIX-INST will be launched in May 2022, and the Riksbank has signed an agreement on using the Eurosystem’s platform for instant payments, known as TIPS (Target Instant Payment Settlement), for the system. Using TIPS as a platform supports the...
Further political decisions are required to safeguard the entire cash infrastructure and cash as a means of payment
03/11/2021 -The new legislation increases the requirements of the banks to supply cash services and the proposed depot responsibility contributes to safeguarding parts of the cash infrastructure. However, these measures are not enough to ensure the entire...
New types of fraud increasingly common
03/11/2021 -As Swish and Bank-ID are used increasingly often they are also being used as tools to conduct fraud. They are used in combination with internet banks to access the victim’s money. Telephone fraud, also known as vishing or voice phishing, has...
E-krona access to state money in digital form
03/11/2021 -Today, the general public has access to Swedish krona in two forms – state issued money in the form of cash and digital money issued by the commercial banks. As cash is used less and less, there is a risk that the general public will in future...