New design for Financial Stability Report

Date 28/05/2015

New design for the Financial Stability Report. The report is now shorter and the earlier chapters about the financial markets, the Swedish banking groups' borrowers and the Swedish banks have been removed. Moreover, the report now has a clearer focus on current topics. The main theme of the report published on 3 June is the risks linked to household indebtedness.

"We want our message to become even clearer. The report is therefore more focused now and has greater scope to support and explain our message," says Kasper Roszbach, Head of the Financial Stability Department.

Prior to the publication of the report on 3 June, the analyses used as a basis for the report will be published as Economic Commentaries. In line with the main theme of the report, the commentaries will deal with financial risks in the household sector and possible measures to manage these risks.

The Economic Commentaries to be published are:

1 June, "Financial risks in the household sector"
2 June, "An analysis of the fixed-interest period for Swedish mortgages"
2 June, "An analysis of the debt-to-income limit as policy measure"
3 June, "How is the economy affected by macroprudential policy measures?"

In the Financial Stability Report the Executive Board of the Riksbank gives an overall assessment of the vulnerabilities and risks that can threaten the stability of the financial system and evaluate the system's resilience to them. In some cases the Executive Board recommends specific measures to counteract risks and increase resilience.