OANDA, New York based forex trading serving provider recently revealed in an announcement that it has made a new addition to its APAC region senior level leadership team. As per statement released by the firm…
Prosperity growth in Sweden compares well with other…
Since the financial crisis, prosperity has had weaker development in many countries, including Sweden. The weak development in Sweden over the past three years has led to a discussion of how prosperity in Sweden compares…
Ingves: Payment system of today and tomorrow
“The general public should be able to make digital payment in state-issued money,” said Governor Stefan Ingves today in his speech at DI's conference Framtidens betalningar. In the wake of increasing digitalisation, rapid changes are…
Ulf Söderström new Head of the Research Division…
The Executive Board of the Riksbank has appointed Ulf Söderström as new Head of the Research Division after Jesper Lindé, who has taken up the position of advisor at the International Monetary Fund. [caption id="attachment_358245"…
Ingves and Jansson at the Riksdag Committee on…
Riksbank Governor Stefan Ingves and Deputy Governor Per Jansson today visited the Riksdag Committee on Finance for the second hearing of the year on current monetary policy. Stefan Ingves began the hearing by stating the reasons…
Minutes of the Monetary Policy Meeting held on…
At the Monetary Policy Meeting on 4 September 2019, the Executive Board of the Riksbank decided to leave the repo rate unchanged at –0.25 per cent. As previously, the forecast for the repo rate indicates…
Repo rate unchanged at −0.25 per cent
After several years of high growth, the Swedish economy, similar to economies abroad, has entered a calmer phase. Since the beginning of 2017, inflation has been close to the target of 2 per cent. Even…
Flodén: Safer payments with RIX payments system open…
The Riksbank needs to supplement its RIX payment system with a system that is open 24/365 and can rapidly settle large numbers of payments in central bank money. In this way we can continue to…
Fiscal policy from a monetary policy perspective
The low global interest rates have reduced the scope for monetary policy to stimulate the economy, but at the same time may have increased the scope for fiscal policy action. This has brought the interaction…