The financial environment can best be described as "dynamic." Financial innovations have been coming at a rapid pace in recent years; new financial products have been introduced and are expanding rapidly, and new institutions have taken on prominent roles in key financial markets. Financial technologies have improved as well and have the potential to contribute to the efficiency and resilience of financial markets.
Spreads to the corresponding Danish interest rates widened, leading to capital inflows and a tendency for the krone to strengthen. To keep the krone stable against the euro, Danmarks Nationalbank purchased foreign exchange in the market in the 1st half of 2010 and on several occasions lowered its interest rates unilaterally.