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All payments presuppose an underlying infrastructure
29/10/2020 -For cash to be used in society, an underlying infrastructure is required in the form of ATMs, service boxes for daily takings, transport vans and secure premises for the storage of cash, for example. When paper-based credit transfers are used,...
Are payments in Sweden efficient?
29/10/2020 -Payments in Sweden are efficient, which is to say rapid and inexpensive. Digital payments using cards and Swish are cheaper than cash payments. As a large part of payments have become digital in Sweden, society’s costs for payments have started...
Swish fraud occurs
29/10/2020 -As Swish has become increasingly established as a payment service, it has also become increasingly common for Swish to be used in fraudulent advertising and phone fraud. The police also report that Swish has been used in money laundering with...
Preventing financial crises
03/01/2023 -A crisis in the financial system may lead to large economic costs and involve economic decline, bankruptcies and rising unemployment. It is therefore important to prevent financial crises by identifying and analysing vulnerabilities and risks...
TIBER and DORA TLPT
12/04/2026 -Threat-led penetration tests aim to give important actors in the Swedish financial system a better picture of their capacity to manage cyber risks, and thus provide a base for strengthening resilience in the financial system.
What is the policy rate?
20/01/2026 -The Riksbank’s policy rate is our main monetary policy tool. By raising or cutting the policy rate, the Riksbank can affect other interest rates in Sweden, which affects demand in the Swedish economy and thereby inflation.
Communication to contribute to the stability and efficiency of the financial system
26/08/2025 -The Riksbank has few coercive measures to influence participants in the financial system. Instead, the Riksbank primarily exerts influence by communication, both in public and in dialogue with participants. In this, the Riksbank strives to be as...
Financial regulatory frameworks
22/09/2025 -Standards and regulations for financial undertaking corporations and for how individual institutions should be regulated and managed in a crisis provide a great help in preventing financial crises.
Collecting information
06/06/2025 -The Riksbank regularly collects information from various sources to be able to assess the stability of the financial system.
Continuous analysis and monitoring
03/01/2023 -The Riksbank works continuously to identify and analyse risks of severe disruptions or significant efficiency losses in the financial system. Below is a description of the areas included in the Riksbank’s analysis.