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Further political decisions are required to safeguard the entire cash infrastructure and cash as a means of payment
03/11/2021 -The new legislation increases the requirements of the banks to supply cash services and the proposed depot responsibility contributes to safeguarding parts of the cash infrastructure. However, these measures are not enough to ensure the entire...
International collaboration on central bank digital currencies and cross-border payments
03/11/2021 -At the start of 2020, an international working group was formed on behalf of the central bank governors from a group of countries, including Sweden, to share lessons, create a common stance and discuss the way forward with regard to central bank...
E-krona access to state money in digital form
03/11/2021 -Today, the general public has access to Swedish krona in two forms – state issued money in the form of cash and digital money issued by the commercial banks. As cash is used less and less, there is a risk that the general public will in future...
Payments have continued to function well during the coronavirus pandemic
29/10/2020 -In 2020, the coronavirus spread with devastating consequences for both individual people and social life. Public authorities around the world introduced comprehensive restrictions to prevent the virus from spreading, to protect human life and to...
Central bank digital currencies an important international issue
03/11/2021 -When a group of companies headed by Facebook launched the idea of creating their own currency in 2019, which was then called Libra but later changed name to Diem, central banks around the world took note. With Facebook’s global network, this type...
Test of technical solution for an e-krona
03/11/2021 -The Riksbank has a pilot project to examine technical alternatives for a possible issue of the Swedish krona in digital form – an e-krona. A technical solution is now being tested with external participants. However, no decision has yet been made...
Poorer access to cash at bank offices
03/11/2021 -In Sweden, the county administrative boards have the task of ensuring that the possibility to use basic payment services corresponds to the needs of society. Their assessment is that access to basic payment services for private persons is in...
Cross-border payments need to be faster and cheaper
03/11/2021 -Speed and ease of use are important for payments to be efficient. Apart from instant payments like Swish, payments between Sweden and the euro area generally function as smoothly as payments within Sweden. Payments to other countries, however,...
The Riksbank intends to use the Eurosystem’s payment platform
03/11/2021 -RIX-INST will be launched in May 2022, and the Riksbank has signed an agreement on using the Eurosystem’s platform for instant payments, known as TIPS (Target Instant Payment Settlement), for the system. Using TIPS as a platform supports the...
Nordic harmonisation
03/11/2021 -Bild 1.3 Nordic harmonisation Major changes are taking place in the infrastructure for payments. There is, for instance, a Nordic bank-wide initiative, P27, which aims to build up a new Nordic payment infrastructure for clearing of payments in...