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New Memorandum of Understanding for financial stability in the Nordic and Baltic countries
09/02/2018 -The Swedish Ministry of Finance, the Riksbank, Finansinspektionen (the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority) and the Swedish National Debt Office in its role as resolution authority, have produced, together with their equivalents in Denmark,...
Ingves and Jansson to participate in the annual meeting of the IMF
12/10/2018 -On 12-14 October, the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank will take place in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia. Governor of the Riksbank Stefan Ingves and Deputy Governor Per Jansson will attend the meeting.
Account of Monetary Policy 2017 – Good target attainment and more accurate forecasts
28/03/2018 -Inflation back on target during 2017 The Riksbank has over several years conducted a very expansionary monetary policy to maintain confidence in the inflation target. This policy has, together with increasingly strong developments abroad,...
Riksbank begins prestudy regarding TIPS
06/12/2018 -The ECB's technical platform for instant payment settlement, TIPS, may be an interesting solution for the Swedish market. This was the response of the market participants and other stakeholders who have replied to the Riksbank's consultation on...
The negative policy rate – how has it affected market rates?
22/01/2019 -The negative policy rate has had a strong pass-through to bond market yields and lending rates to firms. Lending rates to households have also fallen, although the initial pass-through was weaker. To sum up, negative policy rates have contributed...
Reduced use of cash natural consequence of digitalisation
14/05/2018 -Cash usage is declining rapidly in Sweden. This appears to be driven by decreasing demand. Quite simply, the general public prefers electronic payments such as debit cards and Swish. In a new Economic Commentary, the authors argue that this is a...
Swedish banknotes will not be printed in Malta
18/05/2018 -Crane AB, which prints Swedish banknotes, has announced that it will be winding up the banknote printing works in Tumba and will instead continue its operations in Malta. The Riksbank's agreement with Crane AB states that Swedish banknotes will...
Prosperity growth in Sweden compares well with other countries
06/11/2019 -Since the financial crisis, prosperity has had weaker development in many countries, including Sweden. The weak development in Sweden over the past three years has led to a discussion of how prosperity in Sweden compares with that of other...
Opinion still divided on the functioning of the fixed-income market
02/12/2019 -Opinion remains divided on how the fixed-income market is functioning, but more participants consider that the market generally functions poorly or very poorly than consider that it functions well. This is shown by the Riksbank's Financial...
Riksbank reports currency exchanges for a self-financed foreign exchange reserve
01/03/2021 -On the first Monday in every month the Riksbank reports the previous month’s foreign currency exchanges made for the purpose of having appropriate long-term funding for the foreign exchange reserve. The exchanges of Swedish krona for euro and US...