The cash will increase in number, if the Riksbank gets what they want.
Last winter, the Riksbank presented a proposal: before the requirements for cash with traders who sell vital goods such as food and medicine.
The proposal received both rice and rose.
The Riksbank’s proposal met criticism
From Svensk Handel, the criticism was highlighted that a cash requirement could come to be far too expensive for the companies.
– With fewer and fewer customers using cash, the market to manage cash is also getting less. It will be more expensive from year to year to handle cash as the Riksbank’s survey also shows. The cash is the most expensive payment means for trade, said Bengt NilervallBusiness Political Expert at Svensk Handel, in a previous interview with News24.
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“All people must be included”
At the same time, criticism also came from an unexpected direction: the network of cash uprising. They believed that a cash requirement should not only include traders of vital goods, instead all traders should be covered by the requirement. ‘
– All people must be included in society. Everyone needs to be able to buy clothes, go to a cafe, buy train tickets, go to the bathhouse and much more. Anything like that included in a normal life, lifted Björn Erikssonchairman of the cash uprising, in a previous interview with News24.
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Cash important in Sweden’s readiness
However, the Riksbank is adamant to its proposal.
In the compilation “Payment Report 2025” If you address what should be reviewed in payment in Sweden. Central was Sweden’s preparedness, an issue where cash plays a big role.
– It is important to have cash for preparedness because we have many digital payment systems in Sweden and it works well but we are dependent on both electricity and the internet working to be able to pay with digital systems, have first Deputy Riksbank Manager Anna Breman said in a previous interview with Sweden’s radio.
Now the Riksbank once again repeats the importance of cash in a crisis situation.
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So may cash in circulation become more
The “Payment Report 2025” emphasizes how the Riksbank itself will go about being involved in ensuring that a flow of cash is maintained in Sweden.
The Riksbank will, among other things, open more banknotes where companies can pick up and leave cash.
“Having such layers of cash in more places in the country reduces both the costs for companies and the risk that cash would be difficult to use in disturbances,” they write on their website.
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