On 29 October 2026 the Riksbank published its consultation response to the Ministry of Finance memorandum EU:s penningtvättspaket (Fi2026/01654), and its main request is a SEK 10,000 cash limit for retail transactions. The memorandum proposes leaving the option in Article 80(2) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1624 (the AMLR) unused, so the EU ceiling of EUR 10,000…
Finansinspektionen (FI) decided FFFS 2026:33 on 13 October 2026, amending FFFS 2015:1, its regulations and general guidelines on information about interest on housing credit (bostadskrediter). The FFFS 2015:1 amendment takes effect on 20 November 2026, the day the new Consumer Credit Act (2026:1011) replaces the 2010 Act. It rewrites 1 § and 2 §, the…
Sveriges Riksbank collects money market data from its monetary policy counterparties under section B.3.2.3(c) of the Villkor for RIX och penningpolitiska instrument, the terms every counterparty signs up to. A counterparty that the Riksbank has not selected for daily reporting through its TORA system owes annual money market reporting instead: one Excel workbook summarising the…
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…
Finansinspektionen (FI) decided on 13 October 2026 to amend FFFS 2023:12, its regulations on ownership, owner-management and management assessments in certain financial firms. The amending instrument, FFFS 2026:35, enters into force on 20 November 2026. From that date the regulations also cover Swedish firms under FI supervision that grant consumer credit other than housing credit…
On 13 October 2026 Finansinspektionen (FI) decided FFFS 2026:34, a consequential amendment to its credit-risk regulations FFFS 2018:16, effective 20 November 2026. The amendment rewrites 1 kap. 3 §: the housing-credit reference moves from 2 § of the Consumer Credit Act (2010:1846) to 1 kap. 3 § of the Consumer Credit Act (2026:1011). The instrument…
On 1 October 2026 the Riksbank announced that the Eurosystem has approved its onboarding to EUREP, the Eurosystem’s repo facility for central banks outside the euro area. The line lets the Riksbank borrow up to EUR 50 billion by pledging eligible euro-denominated collateral, and the ECB has said that drawings under the enhanced facility are…
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…
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…