Sweden’s central bank has welcomed proposals for stricter amortisation requirements for highly indebted households put forward by the country’s financial supervisory authority, Finansinspektionen (FI). But the bank warns that the measures will need monitoring closely, and might not be enough to deal with risk from the Swedish housing market.

Sveriges Riksbank considers Swedish households’ high and rising indebtedness a “serious threat to financial and macroeconomic stability”, it says in a