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Central banks and BIS explore possible design of central bank digital currencies
30/09/2021 -Today the Bank for International Settlement, BIS, is publishing three new reports on central bank digital currencies, CBDCs. These reports, which have been produced together with seven central banks, the Bank of Canada, the Bank of England, the...
Purchases of commercial paper every second week
20/10/2021 -The Riksbank’s purchases of commercial paper are being switched from auctions once a week to auctions every second week. From now on, the auctions will be held in weeks with even numbers (week 44, 46, etc.). Demand has been very low over the...
The Riksbank expands its reporting of climate-related information
12/04/2022 -The Riksbank starts publishing the carbon footprint of the assets in the foreign exchange reserves. The carbon footprint of the Riksbank’s foreign exchange reserves was 298,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalents per billion dollars of GDP on...
ESRB warns about vulnerabilities in the EU financial system
29/09/2022 -The European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB) issues a warning on vulnerabilities in the EU financial system...
Swedish equity funds can do more to help with the climate transition
03/10/2022 -Swedish equity funds that have joined a climate initiative have on average reduced the carbon dioxide emissions in their portfolios more actively than those that have not joined an initiative. However, there is little evidence that funds that...
How does the climate transition affect inflation?
13/04/2022 -To limit global warming, we need to consume less fossil fuels. An important part of the strategy for achieving this is to make the cost of such consumption more expensive than more environmentally friendly alternatives. This is one of the...
New mapping of the investment fund sector's cross-border links
08/08/2023 -A new Staff Memo has for the first time mapped the Swedish cross-border links generated by the investment portfolios of the rapidly growing investment fund sector. The author, Samantha Myers, senior economist at the Financial stability...
New issue of the Riksbank’s journal Economic Review
12/05/2023 -This edition of Sveriges Riksbank Economic Review contains two long articles, and shows the breadth of the subjects that can be included in this journal. The first article concerns the Swedish electricity market. The large fluctuations in...
The Riksbank responds to Flug and Honohan’s review of monetary policy, 2015-2020
25/05/2022 -Historically, 2015-2020 was an exceptional monetary policy period, with low inflation, a negative repo rate and strongly growing balance sheets in the central banks. The Executive Board welcomes the reviewers’ work and their assessment that the...
The Riksbank’s Financial Markets Survey: Fixed income and foreign exchange markets functioning somewhat better
03/05/2023 -The Swedish fixed income and foreign exchange markets are functioning somewhat better today than last autumn. This is according to the fixed income and foreign exchange traders who responded to the Riksbank’s Financial Markets Survey conducted...