The recent financial crisis has revealed a number of weaknesses in the existing capital adequacy rules. It is therefore important to impose stricter capital adequacy requirements for the banks, stress FI, the Swedish Ministry of Finance and the Riksbank (Sweden’s central bank) in a joint response to the EU Commission's Capital Requirements Directive, CRD.
The Swedish authorities would also like the new capital adequacy rules within the EU to be secured in harmony with the framework agreed upon by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision.
Response to the EU Commission's Capital Requirements Directive, CRD