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A Riksbank equipped for the future
08/12/2020 -“Our focus has been on keeping interest rates low and ensuring that there is good access to liquidity. We have wanted to provide the economy with the best conditions possible to recover after the coronavirus pandemic and, as usual, to get...
Ohlsson: Inflation statistics difficult to interpret during the economic crisis
17/06/2020 -“Who could have imagined that spring 2020 would turn out like this?” These comments are made by Deputy Governor Henry Ohlsson in a speech today published on the Riksbank’s website. The economic crisis has entailed several challenges for the...
Ohlsson: Swedes have hidden wealth
12/04/2021 -When asset prices rise, wealth distribution becomes more uneven as the assets are not evenly distributed among households. But there is hidden wealth in Sweden that mitigates these effects – in the collective pension funds. These were the words...
Ohlsson at the Riksdag Committee on Finance: A combination of measures most effective to support the economy
20/10/2020 -Governor Stefan Ingves and Deputy Governor Henry Ohlsson today took part in the year's second hearing on monetary policy at the Riksdag Committee on Finance. They commented among other things on the measures taken by the Riksbank to alleviate...
Minutes of the Monetary Policy Meeting held on 9 February 2022
21/02/2022 -Monetary policy needs to give continued support for inflation to be close to the inflation target in the medium term. At its monetary policy meeting on 9 February, the Executive Board of the Riksbank therefore decided to keep the repo rate...
Minutes of the Monetary Policy Meeting held on 23 November 2022
05/12/2022 -To bring down inflation and safeguard the inflation target, the Executive Board decided to raise the policy rate by 0.75 percentage points to 2.50 per cent at the monetary policy meeting on 23 November. Inflation is still far too high and...
Riksbank launches service for instant payments
23/05/2022 -Today the RIX-INST service is launched, which means that payments between banks can be made in real time 24 hours a day and 365 days a year in central bank money. The Riksbank is thus offering the banks a secure and cost-effective payment system...
Erik Thedéen appointed new Riksbank Governor
17/06/2022 -The General Council of the Riksbank decided today to appoint Erik Thedéen as new Governor of the Riksbank. Mr Thedéen succeeds Stefan Ingves, who leaves the Riksbank at the end of the year.
Self-financing of foreign exchange reserves to be completed earlier
03/02/2022 -As of 7 February, the Riksbank is increasing the rate of purchases of foreign cur-rency aimed at replacing the external financing of the foreign exchange reserves. The purchases will be completed by 31 December 2022, instead of 31 December 2023.
Stefan Ingves leaves the Riksbank at the end of the year
17/06/2022 -After 17 years as Governor of the Riksbank, Stefan Ingves will leave the bank when his term of office expires on 31 December 2022.