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Trustly becomes first third-party provider to support RIX INST-powered instant payouts

Trustly, the global leader in Pay by Bank solutions, has announced that it will now support RIX INST, the instant settlement system of Sveriges Riksbank, the Swedish Central Bank, solidifying Trustly’s leading position in instant payouts.

20 March 2025

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Sweden's Riksbank works on offline payments in contingency planning for war outbreak

Sweden's central bank is working to improve the possibility of making offline payments by card to strengthen resilience at a time of geopolitical unease and the advance of Russian troops in Ukraine.

10 March 2025

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Swedish central bank calls for more action by banks on Tips cross-currency project

Sweden's central bank is calling on banks to join in the ongoing work to enable instant cross-currency payments within Europe via the Target Instant Payment Settlement (Tips) system.

20 January 2025

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Sweden's Riskbank opens up instant payments infrastructure for new use cases

The Riksbank is today opening up its payment system RIX-INST to more types of instant payment. Previously, the system was only open to Swish payments.

25 November 2024

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Sweden's Riksbank presents case for modernisation of retail payments infrastructure

Sweden's central bank says the country's retail payment infrastructure needs to be modernised to accommodate more instant payments and third party access to payment and settlement rails.

20 November 2024

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Sweden and Denmark to initiate real-time cross currency settlement via Target Instant Payments

The European Central bank is implementing a cross-currency settlement service on the Eurosystem's Target Instant Payment Settlement (Tips) service.

24 October 2024

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Sweden's central bank threatens banks with legislation to protect access to cash

Sweden's Riksbank is threatening banks with the propect of regulation to ensure business access to cash services.

16 September 2024

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NextGen Nordics 2024: Top Nordics payments stories you’ve missed this year

Finextra is returning to Stockholm for the annual NextGen Nordics event. Attendees can expect in-depth conversations on a variety of topics and much more.

19 March 2024

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Swedish central bank calls for legislation to protect cash

Even as cash usage continues to fall in Sweden, legislation is needed to ensure that people can pay with notes and coins, says the central bank governor.

15 March 2024

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Sweden becomes the first non-euro area country to join Tips with its national currency

Swedish market participants are settling instant payments in Swedish kronor in the Eurosystem TARGET Instant Payment Settlement (TIPS), after a successful migration over the past weeks.

27 February 2024

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Swedish central bank files police report after IT firm hit by ransomware attack

Sweden's Riksbank has filed a police report after a ransomware attack on software firm Tietoevry knocked out some of the central bank's IT systems.

26 January 2024

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Central banks conclude cross-border CBDC experiment, Project Icebreaker

Project Icebreaker, a joint initiative from the Bank for International Settlements and the central banks of Israel, Norway, and Sweden, has successfully concluded a study on the potential benefits and challenges of using retail central bank digital currencies (CBDC) in international payments.

06 March 2023