Special Publication no. 15: Capital requirements and financial stability
18.06.2021
The Central Bank of Iceland has published a report on capital requirements and financial stability. The publication contains an accessible summary of the capital requirements in effect in Iceland, in view of the global regulatory framework and its evolution in recent decades.
Minutes of the Monetary Policy Committee meeting of 17-18 May 2021
02.06.2021
In accordance with the Monetary Policy Committee Rules of Procedure, the minutes of the Committee's most recent meeting have been published on the Bank's website. The minutes are published two weeks after the announcement of the Committee‘s decision.
Minutes of the Financial Stability Committee meeting 12-13 April
31.05.2021
The minutes of the Financial Stability Committee meeting 12-°13 April 2021 has been published. Committee members discussed financial stability developments and prospects, the economic situation, developments in the domestic financial markets, the position of and risk in the financial system and in the operations of individual financial institutions...
Interest on Central Bank of Iceland certificate of deposit CBI2016
31.05.2021
With reference to Article 10, Paragraph 2 of the Act on the Treatment of Króna-Denominated Assets Subject to Special Restrictions, no. 37/2016, interest rates on the certificates of deposit specified in the Act are reviewed by the Central Bank on interest payment dates. The Central Bank has decided that as of the interest payment date 2 June 2021,...
May Monetary Bulletin published
19.05.2021
The May issue of Monetary Bulletin has been published on the Central Bank of Iceland website. The report is also issued in Icelandic under the title Peningamál.
Webcast, MPC statement, interest rate decision and Monetary Bulletin
19.05.2021
A statement of the Central Bank of Iceland's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) and the Committee's interest rate decision was published at 08:30 hrs. today on the Central Bank website. A few minutes later, at 08:35 hrs, the Bank's quarterly Monetary Bulletin was published. Beginning at 9:30 hrs. a webcast starts where Bank officials present the inter...
Revised and updated method for publication of broad money (M3)
18.05.2021
The Bank has now revised its calculation of M3. The changes are of two types. First, the publication and presentation of M3 have been harmonised, so that only broad money adjusted for breaks in time series due to structural changes in the financial market is published. Second, a new data series including M3 plus money market fund unit shares and de...
Survey of market expectations
12.05.2021
Market agents expect inflation to ease in the coming term and measure 3% a year from now. Expectations two, five, and ten years ahead are unchanged and still at target. Furthermore, they expect the key rate to rise in Q3. These are findings from the latest survey of market agents’ expectations conducted by the Central Bank of Iceland over the perio...
Central Bank discontinues regular foreign currency sales
30.04.2021
Effective Monday 3 May 2021, the Central Bank will discontinue its regular foreign currency sales programme.
National Bank of Slovakia decision imposing sanctions and corrective measures for investment infringement by NOVIS
28.04.2021
The Central Bank of Iceland Financial Supervisory Authority (FSA Iceland) makes reference to previous press releases concerning the National Bank of Slovakia’s (Národná banka Slovenska, NBS) decisions on NOVIS Versicherungsgesellschaft, NOVIS Compagnia di Assicurazioni, NOVIS Poisťovňa a.s. (NOVIS), most recently on 25 February 2021.