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Pandemic hastening development towards digital payments
03/11/2021 -During the coronavirus pandemic, the use of cash has declined in Sweden and in many other countries. Instead, contactless payments and other digital forms of payment have become more common. This is partly because we have shopped more online and...
New opportunities and challenges with money in new forms
03/11/2021 -The interest in and number of so-called crypto currencies continue to increase. At the same time, the central banks are proceeding with the work on developing central bank digital currencies – what we in Sweden call the e-krona. New...
International harmonisation affects Sweden
03/11/2021 -Payments in the euro area often function as smoothly as payments within Sweden’s borders. Payments to other countries, however, may still be slow and expensive. To improve payments between countries, international work is under way on...
Riksbank staff wartime deployment
14/03/2022 -In 2015, the Government decided that Sweden should resume its total defence planning. The Riksbank is part of Sweden's total defence and therefore needs to be able to maintain priority operations and ensure appropriate staffing in the event of a...
Funding of this year’s transfer of profit dividends to the Treasury
22/03/2022 -The Riksbank is funding this year’s transfer of profit dividends to the Treasury by increasing the Riksbank’s deposits in SEK from banks by the same amount in the form of Riksbank Certificates and overnight deposits from the banking system. The...
Amended publication date for the Financial Stability Report
25/03/2022 -The Financial Stability Report will be published on 24 May at 9.30 am, instead of on 25 May as previously announced. Calendar...
The Riksbank welcomes the Committee on Finance’s review of monetary policy
31/03/2022 -The Riksdag Committee on Finance today published the report “Review of the Riksbank's monetary policy 2015-2020” by Karnit Flug, former Governor of the Bank of Israel and Patrick Honohan, former Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland.
New report from the e-krona pilot project
06/04/2022 -It should be possible to integrate an e-krona into banks’ and payment service providers’ own existing systems. This is the conclusion of the Riksbank after testing a technical solution for a potential e-krona. The results are summarised in a new...
Request For Information (RFI) within the framework of the e-krona project
07/04/2022 -The Riksbank is continuing its work on preparing for an issuable e-krona and now wishes to gather information from the market about various possible technical solutions on which to base an e-krona.
Climate-related transition risks must be given priority
08/04/2022 -The data and methods available for measuring climate-related transition risks are under development. There is a lot of work going on in this area, in the banks and in organisations at national and international level, but it is important that...