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Lars Heikensten becomes Governor of the Riksbank
07/02/2018 -Heikensten has eight years’ experience of the role of Deputy Governor before he becomes Governor of the Riksbank. During his tenure, he manages interest rate cuts and Sweden’s referendum on the EMU.
Negative repo rate is introduced
09/02/2018 -The increasingly low rate of inflation leads to a series of repo rate cuts. In February 2015, the repo rate becomes negative for the first time. The Riksbank also starts to purchase government bonds to lower interest rates in general across the...
Sveriges Riksbank reaches the age of 350
09/02/2018 -Sveriges Riksbank reaches the age of 350. We are marking this with a number of activities. In this way, we wish to disseminate knowledge about the Riksbank's role in the Swedish economy and about important future issues.
Repo rate cut to 0 per cent
09/02/2018 -In October 2014, the Riksbank cuts the repo rate to 0 per cent. Its aim is to increase demand in the economy and bring inflation up. This is a historic event; never in the Riksbank’s almost 350-year history has the interest rate been so low.
E-krona being investigated
14/05/2020 -The use of banknotes and coins is declining in society. The Riksbank decides to develop a proposal for a technical solution for Swedish kronor in electronic form, known as an “e-krona”.
Publication of SWESTR starts
10/03/2023 -The Riksbank starts publishing SWESTR (Swedish krona Short Term Rate) – a transaction-based reference rate.
E-krona theme in new edition of Economic Review
05/11/2018 -The Riksbank is investigating the possibility and consequences of introducing a Swedish central bank digital currency, a so-called e-krona. The latest issue of our journal Economic Review is a special theme issue discussing the e-krona from...
Riksbank lends up to SEK 500 billion to safeguard credit supply
13/03/2020 -To avoid robust companies being knocked out as a result of the spread of the coronavirus, the Executive Board of the Riksbank has today decided to lend up to SEK 500 billion to companies via the banks. The aim is to maintain the supply of credit...
Measures to further improve credit supply to companies
26/03/2020 -To avoid robust companies being knocked out as a result of the corona pandemic, the Riksbank has decided at an extraordinary monetary policy meeting to initiate purchases of commercial paper and to temporarily enlarge the circle of monetary...
Next step: a technical solution for the e-krona
26/10/2018 -“The next step in the Riksbank's work on the e-krona should be to build an e-krona to learn more and test which solutions are viable and possible to realise,” says Eva Julin, project manager of the Riksbank's e-krona project. A technical...