Sveriges Riksbank
Riksbank deputy: Slowing Swedish growth to be buoyed by eurozone recovery
Kerstin af Jochnick says Riksbank will conduct flexible monetary policy accounting for growth in household debt until macro-prudential policy has been established
People: NY Fed communications head resigns; Riksbank names acting financial stability chief
NY Fed's Krishna Guha leaves his position with immediate effect but will stay on as senior adviser until September; Martin Johansson will lead the Riksbank's financial stability department; and more
Sweden's Riksbank holds rates, but new deputy dissents
Ingves suggests the possibility of another increase in mortgage risk-weights after they were raised to a minimum of 15% in April; Riksbank estimates consumer price inflation to remain at 1% in 2013
Swedish paper finds benefit in increasing lag-length in VARs
Working paper says it is possible to estimate structural vector autoregressions with long lags and still obtain precise structural predictions
Riksbank paper looks at scrapping inflation target in favour of nominal GDP
Working paper concludes the inflation target should not be dropped, but only outperforms nominal GDP targeting when forward guidance is given
Ingves wants Riksbank monopoly over macro-prudential policy
Stefan Ingves dismisses proposals for central bank and financial services authority to share responsibility for macro-prudential responsibility
Swedish deputy says monetary policy must remain as tool for dealing with financial imbalances
Per Jansson says macro-prudential policies will only complement, and not replace, the Riksbank’s use of its benchmark interest rate to lean against financial imbalances
Riksbank predicts ‘elimination’ of retail payments competition
Sweden’s retail payments market is expanding but Sveriges Riksbank says larger players will prevail and smaller companies ‘will be eliminated’
People: Poloz takes over from Carney; Hristov returns from Bulgarian parliament
Stephen Poloz starts term as Bank of Canada governor; Bulgarian deputy resumes duties; Bermuda Monetary Authority shuffles management for ‘greater supervisory effectiveness’; and more
BIS finds ‘no evidence' of persistent collateral scarcity
Report says increased reliance on collateralised funding and demands of regulatory reforms have not led to any 'lasting or widespread scarcity' of high quality assets
Riksbank deputy appointments boost easing hopes
Martin Flodén and Cecilia Skingsley selected as new deputies; seen to shift the executive board in a more ‘dovish’ direction and increase the chances of a rate cut
Riksbank risk survey reveals rate-rise fears
Participants in Sweden’s fixed-income and forex markets raise concerns over interest rates rising faster abroad than at home; unemployment data fuels call for a rate cut in the near term
Swedish deputy wants central bank independence reconsidered
Barbro Wickman-Parak, in her last speech at the Riksbank, says independence is ‘essential’ for price stability but needs to be reviewed with regard to macroprudential policy and financial stability
Riksbank doves defeated on rate cuts despite broad support for easing, minutes show
Minutes reveal that despite unanimous support for ‘more expansionary’ monetary policy, majority of board members voted to hold rates due to household debt fears
Riksbank deputy Lars Svensson steps down
Riksbank’s ‘most committed dove’ will leave the central bank in May after failing to win the other members of the Executive Board round to a more expansionary monetary policy
Riksbank submits account of monetary policy 2012
Report on last year's actions submitted to parliament to assess Riksbank performance
Basel III insufficient for ‘huge’ Swedish banking system, says Ingves
Sveriges Riksbank governor says Sweden must go ‘over and above’ capital and liquidity standards in Basel III; identifies household debt and bank market-funding as core weaknesses
Riksbank’s payment system restored after technical failure
Sweden’s large-value payments system, RIX, restored to full functionality after failing to start yesterday afternoon. But cause of disruption still unknown
Riksbank report deflects criticism over persistent below-target inflation
Economic commentary says low inflation is partly caused by factors outside the Riksbank’s control; argues tight policy cannot take all the blame for high unemployment
People: Bank of England reappoints Dale and Haldane to committee posts
BoE hands Spencer Dale and Andrew Haldane – both executive directors – further three-year terms on the financial and monetary policy committee respectively; Sweden deputy stands down
Riksbank at odds with proposals to limit capital, analysts say
Proposals released that would halve the size of the Riksbank’s balance sheet; analysts say they clash with central bank policy and are unlikely to be adopted
Swedish deputy insists on stronger macro-prudential framework
Kerstin af Jochnick wants clearer macro-prudential mandate and decision-making structure; says recent committee proposals are not the answer
Riksbank deputy governor speaks out over ‘entrenched' unemployment fears
Deputy governor calls for rate cuts to bring unemployment down to 'lowest sustainable level'
Riksbank board members clash over inflation forecasts
Minutes from December monetary policy meeting show disagreement over impact of 25-basis point rate cut on inflation