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Payments between accounts work less well into many currencies
29/10/2020 -Account-to-account payments between countries are common for purchases of larger objects such as cars, boats and real estate. They are also common in payments of taxes and fees, when making gifts and so on, when the payer initiates a payment to...
The Riksbank must maintain essential services
29/10/2020 -The Riksbank’s responsibility for maintaining essential services during crisis situations and under heightened alert is made clear by the proposed new Sveriges Riksbank Act. This responsibility means that the Riksbank must safeguard its capacity,...
The authorities are working to promote innovation
29/10/2020 -The Swedish Government sees Fintech as an important future sector and has given several government agencies the task of promoting it. On behalf of the Government, Finansinspektionen is therefore running the FI centre for innovation, which has...
Important to maintain non-digital means of payment
29/10/2020 -Cash services are being automated to an increasing degree. Manual cash services, in which cash can be withdrawn and deposited over the counter, are becoming increasingly rare at banks. Automated cash services work well for most consumers but for...
Paying by mobile or card is cheaper than using cash
29/10/2020 -Some costs are fixed and do not depend on how many payments have been carried out, such as rent for premises and purchases of hardware. Other costs are variable and depend on the number of payments, such as petrol for the vans that transport...
All payments presuppose an underlying infrastructure
29/10/2020 -For cash to be used in society, an underlying infrastructure is required in the form of ATMs, service boxes for daily takings, transport vans and secure premises for the storage of cash, for example. When paper-based credit transfers are used,...
Card payments function smoothly
29/10/2020 -Overall, card-based cross-currency payments function smoothly, both for online purchases and when abroad. However, unlike when making payments in Swedish kronor, an exchange rate markup must be paid to the bank. In addition, card payments cannot...
Are payments in Sweden efficient?
29/10/2020 -Payments in Sweden are efficient, which is to say rapid and inexpensive. Digital payments using cards and Swish are cheaper than cash payments. As a large part of payments have become digital in Sweden, society’s costs for payments have started...
Fintech brings new solutions for the payment market
29/10/2020 -Fintech is an important sector that can contribute to new ways of paying and greater efficiency on the payment market. Fintech brings new solutions for the payment market...
The Riksbank’s Business Survey: “Things that were moving in the right direction have fizzled out”
10/06/2025 -The economic situation has weakened during the spring, and companies’ view of the economic outlook for the coming months has become significantly gloomier. This is revealed by the Riksbank’s Business Survey in May. The more pessimistic view is...