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The cost of cross-border payments is not in line with G20 targets
27/02/2025 -The G20 has set a target that cross-border payments should cost a maximum of 1 per cent and 3 per cent depending on the type of payment made. The cross-border payments currently offered by the major Swedish banks cost considerably more than this...
Petition to the Government on legislative amendments for effective management of the deposit requirement
19/02/2025 -The Riksbank has decided to submit a petition to the Government for legislative amendments to extend the use of information from the database for oversight and supervision of the financial market. The purpose of the petition is to be able to use...
Staff Memo: The problems with an ageing population can have a greater impact on forecasts
19/02/2025 -Ageing populations will hold back economic growth in many countries in the coming decades - Sweden is no exception. Demographics are already a factor in the Riksbank's forecasting, but major changes are now expected in a relatively short time.
New issue of the Riksbank’s journal Economic Review
12/02/2025 -This issue of the Economic Review contains three articles, each dealing with developments in inflation targeting from different perspectives. The first article summarises a research conference on inflation targeting organised by the Riksbank in...
Report from Nordic-Baltic financial crisis exercise
01/04/2025 -In September 2024, the Nordic-Baltic Stability Group (NBSG) carried out a financial crisis exercise in which almost 450 people participated. The Danish entity Finansiel Stabilitet, which was responsible for coordinating the exercise, has now...
Riksbank bond purchases also lower short-term interest rates
16/12/2021 -A stated objective of central bank bond purchases is to lower long-term interest rates. The government bond purchases of the Swedish central bank, the Riksbank, have, however, also lowered interest rates for short-term holding periods. These...
Minor decrease of Sweden's GDP in NGFS climate scenarios
03/12/2021 -In 2021, the global sustainability network known as the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) published a number of scenarios for climate change and economic developments. Among other things, the scenarios show that the economic cost...
Climate risks affect the policy work
14/12/2021 -Climate change, and the measures taken to manage it, may affect the conditions for the Riksbank to fulfil its mandate. It is therefore important for the Riksbank to follow, understand and, as far as this is compatible with its remit, include...
Gunvor Engström new chairperson of Stiftelsen Tumba Bruk
15/12/2021 -The Executive Board of the Riksbank has appointed Gunvor Engström as new Chairperson of the foundation Stiftelsen Tumba Bruk. She will take up her duties on 1 January 2022 and her term of office is four years (until 31 December 2025).
Historical estimates of SWESTR
15/11/2021 -Today the Riksbank is publishing a data series containing historical estimates of SWESTR. The data series gives an indication of what values for SWESTR would have been recorded historically. It is intended to give the financial markets...