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The e-krona pilot phase 4: offline payments with e-krona
20/03/2024 -The Riksbank's e-krona pilot is now releasing its fourth and final report, which analyses how an e-krona could work in practice, if a decision is taken to issue a central bank digital currency. In the report, the Riksbank has further...
Governor Erik Thedéen visited the central bank in Kyiv
18/12/2023 -On Friday, Governor Erik Thedéen visited the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU), where he met and discussed the current situation with the bank's management. Mr Thedéen is thus the first central bank governor to visit the NBU in Kyiv. The Riksbank...
The Riksdag has adopted Amendments to the Sveriges Riksbank Act
18/12/2024 -The Riksdag (the Swedish parliament) today resolved to amend the Sveriges Riksbank Act. The legislative amendments clarify the rules on the restoration of equity and strengthen the Riksbank’s possibilities for funding itself by enabling the...
Head of IT Mats Eklund: We are looking for more skills to accelerate our digitalisation
03/02/2025 -On 5 February, the Riksbank will take part in Techjobsmässan – Sweden's largest recruitment event in technology and IT. "We are increasing the pace of technological development at the Riksbank. To realise our plans for a digitalisation journey,...
The Riksbank reduces the currency risk in the foreign exchange reserves
21/09/2023 -The Riksbank announced in June that it intended to investigate the issue of reducing currency risk in the foreign exchange (FX) reserves. The Riksbank has now decided to hedge a part of the FX reserves by selling USD 8 billion and EUR 2 billion...
More agents can apply to become RIX participants
09/04/2025 -As of today, 9 April, payment institutions and e-money institutions can apply to become participants in the Riksbank's settlement system, RIX.
The countercyclical capital buffer should remain unchanged at 2 per cent
10/04/2025 -The Riksbank considers that the countercyclical buffer rate should remain unchanged at its positive neutral level of 2 per cent for the second quarter of 2025. In Sweden, Finansinspektionen is responsible for the countercyclical capital buffer...
New regulations on reporting payment statistics
04/07/2025 -The Riksbank has decided on new regulations on reporting payment statistics. The regulations cover payment service providers and payment system operators and will enter into force on 1 October 2026.
Aino Bunge: Legislation needed to protect the status of cash
21/01/2025 -Cash usage in Sweden has been declining for a long time. The digitalisation of the payments market is occurring worldwide but it has moved faster here than in most other countries. At a seminar in the Riksdag (the Swedish parliament) today,...
Jansson: Confidence in the inflation target determines how flexible monetary policy can be
13/02/2025 -"The challenges we have faced during my time on the Executive Board have been very diverse. First a long period of inflation below target, then a period of inflation high above it. What these periods have had in common, however, is that monetary...