Roadmap for sustainable finance

In 2019, FI’s overarching mandate was expanded to include a responsibility to ensure that the financial system contributes to sustainable development. FI is also the responsible supervisory authority for a number of new regulations related to sustainable finance that are the result of the EU’s ambitious sustainability agenda.

The financial sector can fill an important function in the transition to a sustainable economy. This function entails financial firms identifying, measuring and pricing their opportunities and risks related to the transition. Considering opportunities and risks in interest rates, asset prices and insurance premiums simultaneously creates conditions for being able to channel savings and investments to more sustainable operations.

Finansinspektionen (FI) plays an essential role in the work with sustainable finance. In 2019, FI's overarching mandate was expanded to include a responsibility to ensure that the financial system contributes to sustainable development. FI is also the responsible supervisory authority for a number of new regulations related to sustainable finance that are the result of the EU's ambitious sustainability agenda.

This report describes the three goals that FI will follow in its work through 2025 to achieve sustainable finance:

  • good access to relevant, comparable and reliable sustainability-related information,
  • high levels of trust in sustainable finance, and
  • resilience to sustainability risks in the financial system.

The report also highlights a number of prioritised actions that will guide us in our work. The basis of our work will be FI's mandate, the regulations related to sustainable finance, and the tools that we have at our disposal as the supervisory authority of the financial sector.