Sveriges Riksbank
Riksbank calls on Mervyn King for monetary policy review
Former BoE governor will head up a review, with Marvin Goodfriend, of Sweden's increasingly controversial monetary policy
Riksbank calls for separate LCR in local currency
Swedish central bank is wary of lenders' ‘extremely low' krona buffers; proposed change could be constrained by the size of Sweden's sovereign bond market, however
Ingves: Swedes should be forced to amortise mortgages
Riksbank governor slams Swedish 'culture' whereby 40% of households ‘do not amortise at all'; average debt-to-income ratio for mortgaged households is 313%
Riksbank sees improvement in interbank rate framework
A detailed examination of the 'Stockholm interbank offered rate' framework was launched in 2011 after several shortcomings were revealed
European central banks strike new gold agreement
Central banks in the eurozone, Sweden and Switzerland agree to coordinate their gold transactions, but scrap the 400-tonne limit on annual sales
People: BoK appoints new reserves chief; Fed staffer returns to head up Riksbank research
Chae Sun-Byoung new head of reserve management at Bank of Korea; Jesper Lindé returns to head up Riksbank's research department; Linette Field put in charge of SSM deputy directorate
New Riksbank data finds household debt higher than previously thought
Study by the central bank puts average debt ratio for households with mortgages at 313%, roughly double the official national average
People: Former Sarb deputy takes over state pension fund; Somali governor confirmed
Familiar faces return to Somali, Swedish central banks, while former Sarb deputy and World Bank executive Renosi Mokate takes the reins at South African pension fund
Riksbank minutes reveal fissures on ‘leaning against the wind' amid low inflation
The Riksbank's decision not to cut interest rates amid weak inflation earlier this month was preceded by heated debate, minutes show
Riksbank deputy leads defence against Svensson critique
Vice-governor one of several heavyweights, including former governor and Nobel Foundation head Lars Heikensten, to take on Lars Svensson, who blames the bank for causing unemployment
Riksbank calls for FMI recovery plans
Sweden’s central bank concerned by the lack of recovery and resolution plans for the country’s financial market infrastructures; calls for changes at individual platforms and in legislation
Riksbank appoints two senior managers
Appointments to human resources and cash and payment systems sections follow establishment of three new departments on March 1
Riksbank told to stop ‘leaning against the wind' by national forecaster
Sweden's National Institute for Economic Research sees ‘no reason for monetary policy to be influenced by household debt' in a rebuke of Riksbank policy
Parliament eyes Riksbank's off-mark inflation forecasts
Report on Swedish central bank's performance in 2013 shows its inflation forecasts were off the mark; flawed forecasts have forced several central banks to upend policies in the past months
Ingves: Sweden needs to go beyond international regulations
Sveriges Riksbank governor Stefan Ingves says Swedish banks’ funding habits and the country’s high levels of household debt warrant stricter regulations ‘in certain respects’
Riksbank deputy flags danger of leaning against the wind
Karolina Ekholm says use of monetary policy to lean against high indebtedness has created deflation while doing little to solve the debt problems
Riksbank paper examines dynamics of foreign funding by Swedish banks
Study finds currency hedging needs of institutions and companies incentivise Swedish banks to issue securities in foreign currency
Nature of shock explains linkages between monetary and macro-pru policies
Riksbank article studies linkages in a dynamic general equilibrium model, where macro-prudential policy is exemplified by a countercyclical capital buffer
Sweden mulls tighter rules on wholesale forex funding
Group comprising top-ranking decision-makers, including Riksbank governor Stefan Ingves and the minister of financial markets, highlights ‘big risk’ of foreign wholesale funding
Riksbank unveils organisational shake-up
Three new units streamlining asset management and payment operations will come into being on March 1; also announces transfer of Skr3.3 billion to Treasury
People: Israel appoints new currency head; ESRB re-elects Ingves
ESRB also reappoints Marek Belka, president of the National Bank of Poland, to steering committee and appoints Richard Portes, founder of CEPR, to Advisory Scientific Committee
Riksbank worries over fallout from ‘sharp corrections' in house prices
Swedish households' interest-rate expectations guided by current levels rather than projections, recently published document finds; Lars Svensson calls findings potentially ‘biased and misleading'
The winners of the inaugural Central Banking awards
Paul Volcker, Mario Draghi, People's Bank of China, Central Bank of Colombia, Sveriges Riksbank, Bank of Spain, BlackRock, Northern Trust, VocaLink and OpenLink win inaugural Central Banking awards
Transparency award: Sveriges Riksbank
Sveriges Riksbank, the Swedish central bank, plays a pioneering role in central bank openness and clear communications