As the end of the Brexit transition period looms, the UK has so far failed to negotiate access to the European passporting scheme for banks. What does this mean for you if you're a British citizen and live in Sweden?
Swedish Finance Minister Anders Borg has said the country's banks have turned a deaf ear to repeated pleas for steeper capital requirements, with the government now ready to legislate to get them to comply.
Sweden's financial markets minister unveiled stricter capital rules for Swedish banks on Monday, citing the unprecedented ripple effect of the Lehman Brothers' collapse as a cautionary tale.
Swedish Finance Minister Anders Borg has said that he could accept the deal agreed in Brussels in the early hours of Thursday morning regarding how to deal with troubled banks.
Sweden's central bank, the Riksbank, on Monday said Swedish banks were weathering the current financial storm well compared to their European colleagues, but still sought a greater focus on capital and liquidity as a bulwark against the long-term impact of financial instability.
Swedish Finance Minister Anders Borg has said that Cyprus has around a week to find a negotiated settlement to its financial travails or face the prospect of meltdown.
All EU members have agreed on the details for European bank regulator but countries outside the eurozone, including Sweden, retain the right to opt out.
Sweden’s Finance Minister Anders Borg told Swedish banks on Tuesday that they will face tougher regulations year-by-year for the foreseeable future, as he addressed the Nordic Bank Summit in Stockholm.
A business and trade delegation from North Korea has been in Sweden learning about its economy and visiting companies, banks and state agencies, Swedish Radio reported on Friday.
Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt said on Monday that Sweden is relatively safe from the Spanish crisis as the country mainly trades with countries like Germany, Britain and Norway.
Swedish Finance Minister Anders Borg said Thursday he was in favour of using more flexible EU mechanisms to help Spanish banks recapitalise, a day after Germany said it opposed such an idea.
Europe's financial sector is set for a decade of reform that will result in a much smaller but more socially useful industry, Swedish finance minister Anders Borg said Wednesday.
Letting Swedes hold on to their account numbers when switching banks is one way to put pressure on banks thought to be gouging customers with high margins on variable rate mortgages, financial markets minister Peter Norman said Thursday.
Sweden on Friday announced plans to beef up the capital adequacy requirements for the country's four largest banks to levels higher than required by international regulations in an effort to help protect the Swedish banking system amid the ongoing eurozone debt crisis.
Sweden may have some of the strongest public finances in Europe but its banks are more vulnerable than most in the current euro debt crisis, Finance Minister Anders Borg said in an interview published Wednesday.
Cooperation between Swedish banks and police to stop the purchase of child pornography images over the internet has proved effective, the national banking association announced on Wednesday.
Sweden has slammed what is sees as a 'detrimental' proposal for higher taxes on banks in Europe, cautioning on Tuesday that institutions would simply relocate to avoid the charges.
Many Swedes with short-term fixed-rate mortgages will face higher bills from now on, after state-owned mortgage lender SBAB and Nordic bank Nordea both raised rates. But mortgages fixed for three years or more will become cheaper, SBAB said.
Swedbank has decided to scrap its 2009 bonus payments, bowing to criticism that Swedish banks had not done enough to trim variable compensation despite lower earnings.
Sweden’s finance minister Anders Borg said on Wednesday that the EU was closer to a agreeing to a new set of measures for policing banks and financial institutions across national borders.
Swedish finance minister Anders Borg said on Tuesday that delicate negotiations to create new cross-border financial supervisory bodies to oversee banks in the European Union were at a "make-or-break" point.
