On 15 October 2026 the Riksbank published a letter to the Riksdag’s Committee on Finance, dated 7 October 2026, explaining why the question of a digital krona, the instrument it used to call the e-krona, is back on the table. The letter estimates that implementing a digital krona would take the Riksbank and the market…
If your institution settles SEPA instant payments in TIPS, a new reachable corridor just opened, and the operational risk sits exactly where it is easy to ignore. On 10 June 2026 the ECB announced that the TIPS cross-currency settlement service had been successfully tested and formally activated by Danmarks Nationalbank, Sveriges Riksbank and the ECB….
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….