On 10 September 2026 the Riksbank decided to leave the Swedish countercyclical capital buffer at 2 per cent, the level it treats as neutral; the decision was published on 11 September. For a reporting team the headline is that the Swedish rate is unchanged at 2 per cent, so this decision itself does not introduce…
On 28 August 2026, Finansinspektionen (FI) published the Swedish bank capital requirements it discloses each quarter, this time as of the end of the second quarter of 2026 (FI Ref. 26-1525). The memorandum covers Sweden’s three major banks, Handelsbanken, SEB and Swedbank, plus seven other institutions in supervisory categories 1 and 2. Most quarters this…
From 1 October 2026 the Sveriges Riksbank starts collecting payment statistics directly from payment service providers and payment system operators, and Riksbank payment statistics reporting becomes a standing filing obligation. The obligation sits in the Riksbank’s regulations RBFS 2025:1, adopted on 25 June 2025. Subject to Section 1’s exclusions, it applies to payment service providers…
A platform migration in securities settlement is the kind of project that looks like an IT problem until the first cross-border trade fails on a date nobody mapped. On 23 June 2026 the Riksbank decided to open contract negotiations with the Eurosystem to settle Swedish krona securities transactions on TARGET2-Securities, the common Eurosystem platform that…
A bank can meet the liquidity coverage ratio every month and still be unable to draw central bank cash quickly when liquidity stress starts. Closing that gap is the whole point of the Riksbank borrowing capacity test. Drawing on a buffer through a central bank facility is a live process, and a process you never…
Riksbank cross-currency instant payments reach Swedish payment service providers in June 2026, and the operational risk is timing. The settlement service has existed on the Eurosystem platform since October 2025, so a payments team that reads the platform launch as its own go-live date will plan onboarding, liquidity and customer messaging around the wrong month….