The Swedish Central Bank (Sveriges Riksbank; aka: Swedish National Bank, Bank of Sweden) is the national central bank of Sweden and the oldest central bank in the world, founded in 1668 and headquartered in Stockholm. 1968, the 300th anniversary of the establishment of the Swedish Central Bank, was the year when the Bank was founded. To commemorate Alfred Nobel, the Riksbank funded the Riksbank Prize in Economics - the Economics Prize.