Calendar 2017

The minutes from the Executive Board's monetary policy discussion on 20 December 2016 will be published.

Deputy Governor Henry Ohlsson talks about current monetary policy.

Organiser: Danske Bank

Venue: Norrmalmstorget 1, Stockholm

Deputy Governor Cecilia Skingsley will hold a speech in Davos on how the Riksbank has encouraged innovation on the retail payments market. She will also address the important role played by central banks in the development of the retail payments market. She will hold the speech during the session Financial stability, innovation, economic growth initiative.

Organiser: World Economic Forum
Venue: Davos, Switzerland

Governor Stefan Ingves will participate in Sida's Development Talks to discuss the importance of central banks as development actors and the role of monetary policy in aid.

Organiser: Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida)
Venue: Valhallavägen 199, Stockholm, Auditorium

Deputy Governor Cecilia Skingsley will participate in the Third Annual BCTX/Blocktech Awards. The award is presented to individuals and companies that have made commendable contributions towards the industry and the technology over the year.

Organiser: BTCX and Goodbit AB etc.
Venue: Mäster Samuelsgatan 36, Stockholm

First Deputy Governor of the Riksbank Kerstin af Jochnick will be talking about the new global regulatory framework for banks, also known as Basel III, and what it means for Sweden.

Organiser: Swedish Centre for Business and Policy Studies/SHOF Finance panel
Venue: Centre for Business and Policy Studies, Jakobsbergsgatan 18, Stockholm.

Executive Board meeting, monetary policy meeting no. 1.

The Executive Board's interest rate decision will be published, together with the Monetary Policy Report.
The decision on the repo rate will apply from 22 February 2017.

The Riksbank will hold a press conference on the interest rate decision. Stefan Ingves, Governor of the Riksbank, and Mattias Erlandsson, acting Deputy Head of Monetary Policy Departement, will participate in the press conference.

Press cards or the equivalent must be shown to attend the press conference.

The press conference will be held at the Riksbank, Brunkebergstorg 11.

The press conference will be broadcast live on the website, but can also be watched afterwards on the Riksbank's website or on the Riksbank's YouTube channel.

Chat with Stefan Ingves on the repo-rate decision and the conclusions of the Monetary Policy Report.

Questions can be submitted via the Riksbank's website from 10.00 the same day. The chat starts at: 13.30.

Deputy Governor Henry Ohlsson will talk about the latest repo rate decision and economic developments at Börsgruppen's event at Linköping University.

Organiser: Börsgruppen, Linköping University
Venue: Linköping

Deputy Governor Cecilia Skingsley will be interviewed on current monetary policy and the economic situation at Nordnet's annual event Nordnet Live at Stockholm Waterfront.

Organiser: Nordnet
Venue: Waterfront, Stockholm

First Deputy Governor Kerstin af Jochnick will make a monetary policy tour to New York and, among other engagements, hold a presentation on the latest monetary policy decision.

Time 18.30 – 19.30 (Swedish time).

Organiser: SEB
Venue: Aquavit, 65 East 55th Street, New York

Deputy Governor Cecilia Skingsley will talk on electronic payment forms of the future at a lunch meeting arranged by the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA).

Organiser: Economics division, IVA
Venue: IVA Conference Centre, Wallenberg Auditorium, Grev Turegatan 16

Governor Stefan Ingves will discuss current monetary policy at the MSCI-IPD fastighetsindex conference.

Organiser: MSCI-IPD Svenskt Fastighetsindex
Venue: Wallenberg Auditorium, IVA Conference Centre, Grev Turegatan 16

Deputy Governor Per Jansson will discuss the latest repo rate decision and the economic situation at a lunch with Öhman.

Organiser: Öhman

Venue: IVA Conference Centre, Banquet Hall, Grev Turegatan 16

The minutes from the Executive Board's monetary policy discussion on 14 February 2017 will be published.

First Deputy Governor Kerstin af Jochnick will give her view of the Swedish economy, the negative repo rate and the housing market.

Organiser: The Alliance parties in Håbo Municipality

Venue: Fridegårdsskolan, Fridegårdscenen, Bålsta

First Deputy Governor Kerstin af Jochnick will visit Halland and Malmö to talk about monetary policy and other subjects at Campus Varberg.

Organiser: Danske Bank and West Sweden Chamber of Commerce

Venue: Campus Varberg, Varberg

The Riksdag Committee on Finance will hold an open hearing on monetary policy with Governor Stefan Ingves and Deputy Governor Henry Ohlsson.

The hearing will be broadcast via Internet television. Slides from the presentation will be published on the Riksbank's website at 10.00.

Organiser: Riksdag Committee on Finance

Venue: Skandiasalen, entrance from Mynttorget 1

Deputy Governor Per Jansson will participate in a panel on the European Commission's country report on Sweden's economic challenges.

Organiser: Representation of the European Commission in Sweden

Venue: Representation of the European Commission in Sweden, Regeringsgatan 65

Governor Stefan Ingves will hold a speech at the Bundesbank's symposium "Banking supervision in dialogue".

Organiser: Deutsche Bundesbank

Venue: Kap Europa Congress Centre, Frankfurt

Deputy Governor Henry Ohlsson will discuss current monetary policy at an event arranged by Vadstena Fastighets AB.

Organiser: Vadstena Fastighets AB

Venue: Asylens festsal, Vadstena

The report "Account of Monetary Policy in 2016" is published on the Riksbank's website.

The retail payments council will act as a forum for dialogue and consultation concerning the Swedish market for payment services.

Retail payments council

Governor Stefan Ingves will discuss current monetary policy issues at the journal Affärsvärlden's annual event Bank & Finans Outlook.

Organiser: Affärsvärlden's annual event Bank & Finans Outlook

Venue: Nalen, Stockholm

Deputy Governor Martin Flodén will discuss how financial stability is affected by new technology at the seminar "Fintech, Regtech, Insurtech: Konkurrens eller allians i framtidens affärsmodell?"

Organiser: Fond & Bank and Veckans Affärer

Venue: Lundqvist & Lindqvist, Klarabergsviadukten 90, Stockholm

Deputy Governor Martin Flodén will address a seminar arranged by Swedish House of Finance on the need to discuss how we want the mortgage market to function.

The slides from the speech will be published on the Riksbank's website.

Organiser: Swedish House of Finance

Venue: SHoF, Drottninggatan 98

Deputy Governor Henry Ohlsson will address a Swedish Trade Union Confederation (LO) seminar on how monetary policy affects the distribution of income and wealth.

Organiser: LO (Swedish Trade Union Confederation)

Venue: LO, Barnhusgatan 18, Stockholm.

Governor Stefan Ingves will hold a guest lecture on financial crises and future challenges at the Department of Economic History.

Organiser: Department of Economic History

Venue: Ekonomikum Auditorium 2, Kyrkogårdsgatan 10, Uppsala University

Governor Stefan Ingves and Deputy Governor Per Jansson will participate in the spring meeting of the IMF and World Bank in Washington D.C., 21-23 April.
Organiser: The IMF and the World Bank
Venue: Washington DC

Executive Board meeting, monetary policy meeting no. 2.

The Executive Board's interest rate decision will be published, together with the Monetary Policy Report.
The decision on the repo rate will apply from 3 May 2017.

The Riksbank will hold a press conference on the interest rate decision. Stefan Ingves, Governor of the Riksbank, and Christina Nyman, acting Deputy Head of Monetary Policy Departement, will participate in the press conference.

Press cards or the equivalent must be shown to attend the press conference.

The press conference will be held at the Riksbank, Brunkebergstorg 11.

The press conference will be broadcast live on the website, but can also be watched afterwards on the Riksbank's website or on the Riksbank's YouTube channel.

Chat with Stefan Ingves on the repo-rate decision and the conclusions of the Monetary Policy Report.

Questions can be submitted via the Riksbank's website from 10.00 the same day. The chat starts at: 13.30.

Deputy Governor Per Jansson to visit Gävle and Sandviken. In conjunction with this, he will discuss current monetary policy at a breakfast meeting organised by Länsförsäkringar Gävleborg.

Organiser: Länsförsäkringar Gävleborg

Venue: Teknikparken, Gävle

Deputy Governor Cecilia Skingsley is speaking at Kistamässan about challenges on the payments market and a possible future e-krona.

Organiser: E-commerce

Venue: Conference Room, Kistamässan, Stockholm

The minutes from the Executive Board's monetary policy discussion on 26 April will be published.

First Deputy Governor Kerstin af Jochnick to participate in Dagens industri's banking conference. She will present her view of the current economic situation and monetary policy challenges.

Organiser: Dagens industri's annual banking conference

Venue: Grand Hôtel, Stockholm

On 11–12 May, the Riksbank will arrange an international conference on different ways of communicating future monetary policy, e.g. by publishing interest rate forecasts. The conference has been arranged against the background of Goodfriend and King’s recommendations in their review of monetary policy 2010–2015.

Deputy Governor Martin Flodén will participate in the concluding panel on Friday.

Programme: http://www.riksbank.se/sv/Riksbanken/Forskning/Konferenser/2017/The-Future-of-Forward-Guidance/

Organiser: Sveriges Riksbank

Venue: Brunkebergstorg 11, Stockholm

Stefan Ingves will hold a speech on the subject "Should macroprudential policy target real estate prices?" at an international conference on macroprudential policy in Vilnius.

Organiser: Bank of Lithuania

Venue: Merchants' Club, Vilnius, Lithuania

For more information and program: http://www.lb.lt/en/events/macroprudential-policy-conference-2017

Deputy Governor Henry Ohlsson will participate in Kammarkollegiet's capital market day and discuss current monetary policy.

Organiser: Kammarkollegiet’s capital market day

Venue: Swedish Medical Association, Klara östra kyrkogata 10, Stockholm

Deputy Governor Per Jansson will participate in Finansdagarna and discuss the latest interest rate decision and current monetary policy.

Organiser: Kommunalekonomernas Förening (association for economists in the local government sector) and PwC

Venue: Scandic Hasselbacken, Stockholm

Governor Stefan Ingves will hold a speech on monetary policy challenges at an event organised by the Swedish Economics Association.

The speech will be published on the website at 12.30.

Organiser: Swedish Economics Association

Venue: Room Torsten, Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm

Deputy Governor Martin Flodén will participate in Region Kronoberg’s local government management conference and discuss current monetary policy.

Organiser: Region Kronoberg’s local government management conference

Venue: Hotel Tylösand, Tylöhusvägen, Halmstad

First Deputy Governor Kerstin af Jochnick will participate in a conference on ”The Role of the Central Bank in Economic Development” organised by the National Bank of Ukraine.

Organiser: National Bank of Ukraine

Venue: Kiev, Ukraine

The Financial Stability Report 2017:1 will be published.

The Riksbank will hold a press conference on financial stability. Stefan Ingves, Governor of the Riksbank, and Kerstin Hallsten, the Financial Stability Department, will participate in the press conference.

Press cards or the equivalent must be shown to attend the press conference.

The press conference will be held at the Riksbank, Brunkebergstorg 11.

The press conference will be broadcast live on riksbank.se but can also be watched afterwards on the Riksbank's website or on Riksbankens youtubekanal.

Deputy Governor Cecilia Skingsley will participate in SEB Bankers’ Day, where she will hold a speech on the current economic situation and how to counteract and mitigate the effects of crises, not least as regards the importance of a well-designed foreign currency reserve.

The speech will be published on the website at 14:00.

Organiser: SEB Bankers’ Day

On June 2, the Riksbank will hold a seminar on FinTech. How can FinTech contribute towards a more efficient financial sector and what challenges does this development entail for financial stability?

The seminar has been arranged against the background of an article on FinTech in the Riksbank’s Financial Stability Report from May 2017.

Deputy Governor Cecilia Skingsley will present the article. Björn Hagströmer, Stockholm University and Uldis Cerps, Finansinspektionen, will comment.

Invitation only.

Organiser: Sveriges Riksbank

Venue: Brunkebergstorg 11, Stockholm 

Governor Stefan Ingves will participate in IADI’s research conference on "Designing an Optimal Deposit Insurance System - Theory and Practice". He will hold a speech on challenges for the deposit guarantee system and the importance of interaction between different parts of the financial safety net.

Organiser: The International Association of Deposit Insurers (IADI)

First Deputy Governor Kerstin af Jochnick will participate in the European Financial Congress. She will open a discussion on "Monetary Policies and the sustainable economic development for EU states".

Organiser: 7th European Financial Congress

Deputy Governor Cecilia Skingsley will participate in a panel and discuss the "Cashless Society and Fintech" at a conference arranged by the OECD.

Deputy Governor Cecilia Skingsley will hold a speech at the SABO (Swedish Association of Public Housing Companies) financial conference and give her view of the current economic situation in Sweden and abroad.

Organiser: SABO financial conference

Venue: IVA conference centre, Grev Turegatan, Stockholm

Governor Stefan Ingves to participate in the Riksdag Committee on Finance's open hearing on financial stability.

Deputy Governor Cecilia Skingsley is taking part in a panel discussion on how new technologies shape the future of central banking as part of the Bundesbank’s 60th anniversary conference "Frontiers in central Banking - Past, Present and Future".

Organiser: Deutsche Bundesbank

Venue: Hilton Hotel, Frankfurt 

Governor Stefan Ingves and Deputy Governor Cecilia Skingsley take part in this year’s conference on macroprudential policy, which is organised by the De Nederlandsche Bank.

The Riksbank took the initiative a couple of years ago in starting an annual conference series on macroprudential policy. The idea is that the conference will be a regular forum in which policy makers, representatives of the private sector and prominent scientists from all over the world gather to discuss, exchange experiences and learn from the best in the field.

The conference is being held in Amsterdam and is only for invited speakers and guests.

Information and programme 

Organiser: De Nederlandsche Bank 

Venue: Amsterdam 

First Deputy Governor Kerstin af Jochnick is participating in the Riksdag Committee on Finance meeting and informing about experiences from interest-rate forecasts and proposals for target variables for monetary policy.

Organiser: Riksdag Committee on Finance

Venue: Committee on Finance, the Riksdag 

Executive Board meeting, monetary policy meeting no. 3.

Deputy Governor Henry Ohlsson will participate in the following events in Almedalen:

Tuesday 4 July

• Swedbank: Our economic situation - challenges and possibilities in a time of political uncertainty. 13.00–14.00 Programme information  
• Almega and the Riksbank: Tomorrow’s repo rate decision and the future of monetary policy. 14.30–15.15 Programme information  

Wednesday 5 July

• Dagens industri: Financial Stability of the EU in 2020. 12.25–12.55 Programme information
• Veidekke. Does Sweden have a housing bubble and how serious is household indebtedness? 13.00–14.30 Programme information

The Executive Board's interest rate decision will be published, together with the Monetary Policy Report.
The decision on the repo rate will apply from 5 July 2017.

The Riksbank will hold a press conference on the interest rate decision. Stefan Ingves, Governor of the Riksbank, and Anders Vredin, Acting Head of Monetary Policy Departement, will participate in the press conference.

Press cards or the equivalent must be shown to attend the press conference.

The press conference will be held at the Riksbank. Please note that entrance is through the bank's personnel entrance at Malmskillnadsgatan 7, and that it may take longer than normal to enter the bank.

The press conference will be broadcast live on the website, but can also be watched afterwards on riksbank.se.

Chat with Stefan Ingves on the repo-rate decision and the conclusions of the Monetary Policy Report.

Questions can be submitted via the Riksbank's website from 10.00 the same day. The chat starts at: 13.30.

Deputy Governor Cecilia Skingsley will participate in the Hamburg Institute of International Economics’ conference "Living without globalization?". She will participate in the panel discussion "Digital transformation and innovation".

Organiser: Hamburg Institute of International Economics

Venue: Sofitel Hamburg Alter Wall, Alter Wall 40, Hamburg

Deputy Governor Cecilia Skingsley will participate in the conference Les Rencontres Economiques, held in Aix-en-Provence. This year’s theme is "In search of new forms of prosperity". She will participate in a debate titled "Is living on credit a threat to sovereignty?"

Organiser: Le Cercle des économistes, Les Rencontres Economiques d’Aix-en-Provence

Venue: Amphi Cassin at Sciences Po Aix, 25 Rue Gaston de Saporta, Aix-en-Provence

The minutes from the Executive Board's monetary policy discussion on 3 July will be published.

First Deputy Governor Kerstin af Jochnick will participate in Ratio’s lunch seminar on current issues in the Swedish economy. She will present her view of the economic situation and current monetary policy, with particular focus on a change of target variable for monetary policy and experiences of publishing interest rate forecasts. Both are significant for the clarity and openness of monetary policy.

Slides from the presentation will be published on the Riksbank's website

Organiser: Ratio

Venue: Sveavägen 59, 4th floor

The Executive Board's interest rate decision will be published, together with the Monetary Policy Report.
The decision on the repo rate will apply from 13 September 2017.

The Riksbank will hold a press conference on the interest rate decision. Stefan Ingves, Governor of the Riksbank, and Anders Vredin, Acting Head of Monetary Policy Departement, will participate in the press conference.

Press cards or the equivalent must be shown to attend the press conference.

The press conference will be held at the Riksbank. Please note that entrance is through the bank's personnel entrance at Malmskillnadsgatan 7, and that it may take longer than normal to enter the bank.

The press conference will be broadcast live on the website, but can also be watched afterwards on riksbank.se.

Chat with Stefan Ingves on the repo-rate decision and the conclusions of the Monetary Policy Report.

Questions can be submitted via the Riksbank's website from 10.00 the same day. The chat starts at: 13.30.

Deputy Governor Henry Ohlsson will make a monetary policy tour to London and, among other engagements, hold a presentation on the latest monetary policy decision.

Local time.

Organiser: Danske Bank
Venue: 1 Lombard Street, London

Deputy Governor Per Jansson will participate in the Profit & Loss conference and will deliver an opening address on current monetary policy.

Organiser: Profit & Loss Forex Scandinavia

Venue: Hotel At Six, Brunkebergstorg 6, Stockholm

Deputy Governor Martin Flodén will participate in Business Arena’s event and discuss current monetary policy under the heading “Macro trends – where are we headed?”

Organiser: Business Arena/Fastighetsnytt

Venue: Waterfront, Stockholm

On 21 September, the Riksbank is hosting a dialogue on how independent a central bank can be in the current economic policy climate in order to fulfil its present and future role.

The seminar is for panel members and invited participants.

Governor Stefan Ingves is chairing the discussion about the large stocks of non-performing loans in the balance sheets of EU banks at ESRB annual  macroprudential conference.

Organiser: Second ESRB annual conference

Venue: European Central Bank, Frankfurt

Deputy Governor Martin Flodén will hold a guest lecture for students on current monetary policy and the Riksbank’s role in society.

Organiser: Börsgruppen, Linköping University

Venue: Campus Valla, Linköping

Governor Stefan Ingves will visit Göteborg, where he will talk about matters including the development of the economy and current monetary policy at a lunch seminar arranged by the West Sweden Chamber of Commerce.

Organiser: West Sweden Chamber of Commerce

Venue: Parkgatan 49, Göteborg

The retail payments council will act as a forum for dialogue and consultation concerning the Swedish market for payment services.

Link Retail payments council

Deputy Governor Cecilia Skingsley is giving a presentation on how Sweden is affected by developments abroad at the Baltic Sea Region and China Day 2017 conference hosted by Linnaeus University.

Organiser: Linnaeus University

Venue: Kalmar 

First Deputy Governor Kerstin af Jochnick is participating in Samhällsbyggnadsdagarna (a conference about the built environment) and giving her view on current monetary policy and the economic situation in Sweden and abroad.

Organiser: Samhällsbyggarna (Swedish professionals for the built environment)

Venue: Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre, Stockholm 

Deputy Governor Henry Ohlsson is speaking about monetary policy, the economic situation and the outlook for Sweden and other countries at a lunch in Norrköping.

Organiser: Chamber of Commerce of East Sweden/Erichs Communications

Venue: Kammarforum, Dalsgatan 13, Norrköping 

Deputy Governor Cecilia Skingsley is participating in a discussion about the cashless society at IIF’s Annual Meeting.

Local times.

Organiser: Institute of International Finance.

Venue: Ronald Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Washington 

Governor Stefan Ingves is participating in a panel discussion arranged by the Bretton Woods Committee.

Local times.

Organiser: Bretton Woods Committee 

Venue: St Regis Hotel, 923 16th Street NW, Washington

Governor Stefan Ingves, Deputy Governor Cecilia Skingsley and Deputy Governor Per Jansson will attend the Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in Washington DC, United States.

Organiser: IMF and World Bank

Venue: Washington DC, United States

Deputy Governor Cecilia Skingsley is participating in a panel discussion about the future significance of fintech.

Local times.

Organiser: Toronto Centre

Venue: IMF HQ2-3B-838, 1900 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington

Deputy Governor Henry Ohlsson is giving a speech at the National Mediation Office's conference “Economic conditions for wage formation”.

Slides from the presentation will be published on the Riksbank's website at 10:00 (the time is preliminary)

Organiser: National Mediation Office

Venue: Folkets Hus, Barnhusgatan 12–14, Stockholm

The Executive Board's interest rate decision will be published, together with the Monetary Policy Report.
The decision on the repo rate will apply from 1 November 2017.

The Riksbank will hold a press conference on the interest rate decision. Stefan Ingves, Governor of the Riksbank, and Mattias Erlandsson, Acting Deputy Head of the Monetary Policy Department, will participate in the press conference.

Press cards or the equivalent must be shown to attend the press conference.

The press conference will be held at the Riksbank, Brunkebergstorg 11.

The press conference will be broadcast live on the website, but can also be watched afterwards on riksbank.se.

Chat with Stefan Ingves on the repo-rate decision and the conclusions of the Monetary Policy Report.

Questions can be submitted via the Riksbank's website from 10.00 the same day. The chat starts at: 13.30.

Deputy Governor Martin Flodén is participating in a conference on cyber risks - digital threats to business and society. He is speaking about new technology and cyber risks in the financial sector from a Riksbank perspective.

Organiser: ​Bonnier, Risk & Försäkring, Fond & Bank

Venue: Lundqvist & Lindqvist Conference Centre, Klarabergsviadukten 90, Stockholm 

Deputy Governor Cecilia Skingsley is participating in payment services provider Kivra’s annual meeting, this year’s digitalisation meeting.

Organiser: Kivra

Venue: Arsenalsgatan 8C, Stockholm

Deputy Governor Cecilia Skingsley is speaking about changes in the payments market at a conference in Paris on the theme: Towards the end of cash?

Organiser: High Council for Economy, Ministère de l’Economie et des Finances and Paris-Dauphine University 

Venue: Salle Raymond Aron, Université Paris-Dauphine, Place du Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny, Paris 

Minutes from the Monetary Policy Meeting held on 25 October 2017 will be published.

Deputy Governor Cecilia Skingsley is participating in Fintech and speaking about new technology and changes on the payments market.

Organiser: Fintech, Finansliv

Venue: Berns, Berzelii Park, Stockholm. 

Deputy Governor Henry Ohlsson is opening a panel discussion at Kvalitetsmässan and speaking about the opportunities and challenges in the current economic situation.

Organiser: Kvalitetsmässan

Venue: Room F1-2, Svenska mässan (Swedish Exhibition and Congress Centre), Mässans gata, Göteborg 

First Deputy Governor Kerstin af Jochnick takes part in a panel discussion under the heading “To regulate or not to regulate?" at the “Nordic Cyber Conference” organised by the Nordic central banks in Copenhagen.

Organiser: Danmarks Nationalbank 

Venue: Copenhagen 

The Financial Stability Report 2017:2 will be published.

The Riksbank will hold a press conference on financial stability. Stefan Ingves, Governor of the Riksbank, and Olof Sandstedt, Head of the Financial Stability Department, will participate in the press conference.

Press cards or the equivalent must be shown to attend the press conference.

The press conference will be held at the Riksbank, Brunkebergstorg 11.

The press conference will be broadcast live on riksbank.se.

Deputy Governor Martin Flodén takes part in the Association of Swedish Finance Houses’ autumn meeting and talks about current monetary policy.

Organiser: The Association of Swedish Finance Houses

Venue: Scandic Haymarket Hotell, Stockholm 

Representatives of the Riksbank, Finansinspektionen (the Swedish FSA), the Swedish National Debt Office and the Government will gather for a meeting of the Financial Stability Council.

Governor Stefan Ingves will hold the opening speech at think-tank Global Utmaning’s seminar on indebtedness and the risks of a new banking crisis in Sweden.

Organiser: Global utmaning

Venue: Kungsgatan 28 A, Stockholm 

Deputy Governor Henry Ohlsson describes the Riksbank's views of the economic situation and current monetary policy at a breakfast seminar.

Organiser: Swedbank

Venue: Bäverns gränd 17, Uppsala 

The Riksbank's Business Survey, October/November 2017 published.

Deputy Governor Per Jansson is holding the speech “The ideological debate on monetary policy – lessons from developments in Sweden”. The speech ties in with the international debate on whether the conditions for inflation targeting have changed in recent years, and discusses some of the Swedish experiences of developments since the crisis that may prove interesting in this debate. 

Lunch sandwich served from 11.30.

The speech is published on the Riksbank’s website: 12:00

Organiser: Fores

Venue: Kungsbroplan 2, Stockholm 

Deputy Governor Martin Flodén comments on Stephen Cecchettia's introduction on banking regulation amendments and the links between capital adequacy requirements and the economy in general.

Organiser: Swedish House of Finance

Venue: Westmans Event och Konferens, Holländargatan 17, Stockholm 

Deputy Governor Cecilia Skingsley is taking part in a panel debate on the theme of "The Global Economy: What can we Expect" at the IEFA conference “Reshaping Globalization".

Her contribution will be published in English on the website: 10:00

Organiser: International Economic Forum of the Americas 

Venue: OECD Conference Center, Paris

Governor Stefan Ingves talks about the changes on the payments market at the seminar “The Riksbank in the cashless society” organised by Swedish House of Finance.

The speech is published on the Riksbank’s website: 08:00

Organiser: Swedish House of Finance 

Venue: Westmans Event och Konferens, Holländargatan 17, Stockholm    

The Executive Board's interest rate decision will be published, together with the Monetary Policy Report.
The decision on the repo rate will apply from 3 January 2018.

The Riksbank will hold a press conference on the interest rate decision. Stefan Ingves, Governor of the Riksbank, and Jesper Hansson, Head of the Monetary Policy Department, will participate in the press conference.

Press cards or the equivalent must be shown to attend the press conference.

The press conference will be held at the Riksbank, Brunkebergstorg 11.

The press conference will be broadcast live on the website, but can also be watched afterwards on riksbank.se.

Chat with Stefan Ingves on the repo-rate decision and the conclusions of the Monetary Policy Report.

Questions can be submitted via the Riksbank's website from 10.00 the same day. The chat starts at: 13.30.