Special issues -- Cross-border banking: forces driving change and resulting regulatory challenges -- Cross-border banking and the challenges faced by host country authorities -- Remarks on cross border banking: regulatory challenges -- Regulatory challenges: the road ahead -- Comments on cross-border banking: regulatory challenges -- Survey of the current landscape -- European banking integration and the Societas Europaea: from host-country to home-country control -- Risks in U.S. Bank international exposures -- Cross-border banking in Asia: Bassel II and other prudential issues -- Discussion of the sessio "Surrvey of the Current Landscape" -- Competitive implications -- Why is foreign bank penetration so low in developed nations? -- Competitive implications of cross-border banking -- Bank concentration and credit volatility -- Cross-border banking -- regulatory challenges: comments -- Prudential regulation issues -- Home and host supervisors' relations from a host supervisor's perspective -- Basel II home host issues -- Basel II and home versus host regulation -- Comments on Jackson, Bielicki and Bednarski and Majnoni and Powell -- Market discipline issues -- Confronting divergent interests in cross-regulatory arrangements -- Market deiscipline issues and cross-border banking: a Noprdic perspective -- Cross-border banking, market discipline and the ability to stand alone -- Market discipline issues associated with cross-border banking -- Safety net issues -- Challenges for deposit insurance and financial stability in cross- border banking environments with emphasis on the Eurpean Union -- The lender of last resort in the European Single Financial Market -- Payment systems and the safety net: the role of central bank money and oversight -- Designing a bank safety net: regulatory challenges for cross-border banking -- Insolvency resolution issues -- Banking in a changing world: issues and questions in the resolution of cross-border banks -- Bank insolvency procedures as foundation for market discipline -- Policy Panel: where to from here? -- Comments on cross-border banking: regulatory challenges -- Where to from here?: comments -- Designing the home-host relationship to support in good times and bad: trans-tasman developments -- An overview of cross-border bank policy issues.