Authorised Swedish authorities may query one platform for account and safe-deposit-box information where the purposes and conditions in sections 3 or 3a are met. That platform is the konto- och värdefackssystem, the account and safe-deposit box system that Skatteverket has run since 2020 and that its own developer pages call Mekanismen. The obligation to feed…
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…
Finansinspektionen has confirmed that the annual AML reporting to FI will be comprehensively updated from 1 January 2027. The new questions replace the current question set, cover obliged entities’ inherent risks and control environments, and align with risk indicators developed with the EBA and AMLA for the EU common risk classification methodology. The reporting period…
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…
When a supervisor publishes its prioritised risks for the year, it is telling you where its inspectors will look first. The FI 2026 AML priorities are exactly that. Finansinspektionen (FI), the Swedish financial supervisory authority, set them out on 18 June 2026 in its report on prioritised risks related to money laundering, terrorism financing and…
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…
When a TARGET payment fails to settle, the operations team finds out before the supervisor does. A missed cut-off on the T2 large-value system, a securities leg that does not match in T2S, an instant payment that cannot reach a counterparty bank in another currency: these are the events that turn a quiet afternoon into…
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….