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• Consumer Protection Report 2025: Digitalisation and viral trends create risks for consumers on the financial market

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  Published 2025-04-30 - Unreliable investment advice from AI or “finfluencers” and the promise of fast gains from crypto trading. These are examples of consumer protection risks that…

• Consumer Protection Report 2025 Summary

  Konsumentskyddsrapport 2025 (Swedish)
• The Swedish Mortgage Market: Households need to have margins for an uncertain future

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  Published 2025-04-07 - The conditions for household finances improved in 2024. As many as 8 out of 10 households chose a variable interest rate, which is a higher share than in…

• Report: The Swedish Mortgage Market 2024 – Summary
• Household savings in Sweden

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  Published 2025-03-24 - Swedes hold a large amount of financial assets, but the distribution of these assets is very uneven. Most Swedes hold a small amount of financial assets,…

• Report: Household savings in Sweden
• FI Analysis No. 48: Share of consumer credit debt registered with Swedish Enforcement Authority increases during economic downturns

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  Published 2025-02-27 - In 2020, almost 130,000 individuals had a debt registered with the Swedish Enforcement Authority that was related to consumer credit. Since the end of 2020,…

• FI Analysis No. 48 (in Swedish)
• FI proposes enhanced preventive work in efforts to prevent investment fraud

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  Published 2024-11-07 - An increasing number of consumers are falling victim to investment fraud. In a report to the Government, FI proposes, among other things, enhanced work to…

• Report: Preventing Investment Fraud
• Financial education continues to be important for strengthening consumers

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  Published 2024-10-18 - Many people find it difficult to make decisions about their finances. The majority of Swedes understand financial terms but are not knowledgeable about how…

• Report: FI’s Work with Financial Literacy
• Two expert reports on macroprudential policy measures

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  Published 2024-09-25 - Amortisation requirements, the LTI ratio, and the LTV cap are macroprudential policy tools that are used in Sweden and many other countries. But what are the…

• Jesper Rangvid: Effects of borrower-based measures

  J. Muellbauer & J. Kaszowska-Mojsa: The effects of BBMs
• Fraud prevention in payment services

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  Published 2024-05-31 - Fraud is a major and expanding societal problem that fosters organised crime. FI supervises that payment service providers follow the provisions set out in…

• Report: Fraud prevention in payment services (In Swedish)
• Interest rate puts pressure on indebted households

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  Published 2024-05-29 - Households continue to be under pressure from both higher interest rates and other costs. This is evident in FI’s mortgage report. The report looks at new…

• The Swedish Mortgage Market Report
• FI Analysis No. 44: Most People Have Lost Money Trading Cryptocertificates

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  Published 2024-05-23 - More than half of Swedes who traded in cryptocertificates over the past six years have lost money on their investments. This is despite the underlying market…

• FI Analysis 44: Swedish Retail Trading in Cryptocertificates
• Four reasons not to buy cryptoassets

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  • Cryptoassets
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  Published 2024-05-15 - Right now, the media is filled with reporting on cryptoassets, and various investment tips are being shared on social media. Even though regulations for the…
• FI notifies foreign supervisory authorities after complaints about misleading advice

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  Published 2024-05-13 - FI has been receiving complaints from consumers in Sweden about four foreign investment firms. The foreign supervisory authorities who are responsible for the…

• Consumer Protection Report 2024
• Firms continue to offer consumers unsuitable products

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  Published 2024-05-08 - Expensive and complex products are unsuitable for most consumers. Despite this, firms offer such products on a broad front. This is one of the consumer risks…

• Consumer Protection Report 2024
• FI Supervision 29: Advisors are not taking customers’ sustainability preferences into account

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  Published 2024-03-28 - Six out of ten say that sustainability is important when saving money. Advisors at banks, investment firms and insurance intermediaries have an obligation to…

• FI Supervision 29: Sustainable advice is a challenge for firms
• FI Analysis No. 42: Gender differences in investment behaviour

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  Published 2024-03-18 - The study confirms previous results showing that women are underrepresented in the stock market. The differences arise as early as three years of age, which…

• FI Analysis No. 42: Gender differences in investment behaviour
• Comprehensive overview is important when changing the conditions on the housing market

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  Published 2024-02-22 - FI has received an assignment from the Government to assess an increase in the loan-to-value (LTV) cap from 85 to 90 percent. At the same time, the Government…

• Report (In Swedish): FI:s syn på en höjning av bolånetaket från 85 till 90 procent
• Our supervision priorities for 2024

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  Published 2024-02-08 - Are consumers being offered the right services on the financial market? How is the sector delivering crucial services in an uncertain global environment? How…

• Supervision priorities for 2024
• Moa Langemark is FI’s new consumer protection economist

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  Published 2024-01-31 - A clear and independent voice is needed to help consumers on the financial market. Moa Langemark will now take on the role of consumer protection economist at…

• How FI works with consumer protection
• Monitor what your funds are costing you

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  Published 2023-11-15 - Today, almost all households invest in funds, either directly through private savings or indirectly through our pensions. However, close to one third of fund…

• Comparative figures for fund fees
• Protect consumers’ access to payment accounts

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  Published 2023-10-31 - Banks restrict consumers’ access to payment accounts more than is necessary to manage money laundering risks. We want to see stricter requirements on banks to…

• FI:s consultation response (In Swedish)

  The Payment Investigation (In Swedish) - Staten och betalningarna (SOU 2023:16)
• Fraudsters use Bitcoin as bait

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  Published 2023-10-25 - It has become increasingly common for fraudsters to contact consumers by email saying there are cryptocurrencies registered at the person's email address.…

• Examples of fraud emails (in swedish)

  How to identify fraud attempts (in swedish)

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• FI Supervision 27: Non-life insurance undertakings’ product approval processes

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  Published 2023-09-21 - The process for product approval is central from a consumer protection perspective. It aims to ensure that insurance undertakings focus on consumer interests…

• FI Supervision 27: Non-life insurance undertakings' product approval processes
• Warnings for investment fraud continue to increase

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  Published 2023-08-16 - Last year, Finansinspektionen (FI) published a record number of warnings of firms suspected of investment fraud. The trend continues. During the first half of…

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• Consumer Protection Report 2023

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  Published 2023-07-25 - The risks given the highest priority in FI’s consumer protection work for 2023 are unaffordable lending, unsuitable investment products and investment fraud.

• Consumer Protection Report 2023
• Open finance in Sweden

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  Published 2023-06-28 - Digitalisation introduces both opportunities and risks to the financial market. After conducting a new survey, FI has noted that broader regulation on how…

• Open finance in Sweden
• Report: Banks’ administration of amortisation requirement exemptions

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  Published 2023-06-16 - Finansinspektionen has conducted a survey into banks' administration of amortisation requirement exemptions, as an assignment from the government. The survey…

• Report: Banks’ administration of amortisation requirement exemptions
• More common for fraudsters to say they work at authorities and companies

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  Published 2023-04-19 - Fraudsters want to establish a credible façade to be able to deceive consumers. One way of achieving this is to make it look like the consumer is being…

• Investment fraud: If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

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• Rising interest costs putting pressure on mortgagors

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  Published 2023-03-28 - Mortgagors are under pressure from rising interest rates. At the same time, the majority of new mortgagors continue to have good margins in their personal…

• The Swedish Mortgage Market 2023
• The Swedish Mortgage Market 2023

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  Published 2023-03-28 - Mortgagors are under pressure from rising interest rates. At the same time, the majority of new mortgagors continue to have good margins in their personal…

• The Swedish Mortgage Market

  Mortgagor margins and amortisation exemptions in early 2023

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• No extra insurance needed when buying a TV

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  Published 2023-02-20 - You do not need special insurance when buying, for example, a new TV or a dishwasher. This is the conclusion of our review of so-called gadget insurance,…

• Report (Summary): Is there a need for supplementary and gadget insurance?