Sweden: Selected Issues

November 17, 2016

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Sweden: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2016) accessed September 18, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues paper discusses measures taken to enable timely macroprudential action in Sweden. The Swedish financial supervisory authority has adopted a number of macroprudential measures under its mandates for financial stability and consumer protection. The supervisory authority imposed a loan-to-value limit of 85 percent for new mortgage loans in 2010, with the soundness principle as the legal basis for this measure. Under its financial stability mandate, it also set a floor on risk weights for Swedish mortgages, which was raised from 15 percent to 25 percent in September 2014. Following an expansion of the regulatory toolkit, a range of capital buffers have also been established and subsequently expanded.

Subject: Asset and liability management, Banking, Financial sector policy and analysis, Financial sector stability, Foreign exchange, Liquidity, Macroprudential policy, Macroprudential policy instruments

Keywords: Australia and New Zealand, Bank, CR, FI, Financial sector stability, FX, FX liquidity, FX reserve, FX shortage, Global, Government, Government approval, Instruction ordinance, ISCR, Liquidity, Macroprudential policy, Macroprudential policy instruments, Maturing FX outflow, Support needs, U.K. financial system

Publication Details

Pages:

54
Volume:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2016/354
Stock No:

1SWEEA2016002
ISBN:

9781475553826
ISSN:

1934-7685

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