Title: Cross-border banking
Description: "This paper examines the implications that alternative regulatory structures may have for  resolving failed banking institutions. We place our emphasis on the European Union (EU), which is both  economically and financially large and has several features relating to cross-border banking in the form of  direct investment that may heighten the problems we consider. We propose four principles to ensure the  efficient resolution of bank failures, should they occur, with minimum, if any, credit and liquidity losses.  These principles include prompt legal closure of institutions before they become economically insolvent,  prompt identification of claims and assignment of losses, prompt reopening of failed institutions, and  prompt recapitalizing and reprivatization of failed institutions. Finally, we propose a mechanism to put  such a scheme into place quickly in the case where a cross-border banking organization seeks to take  advantage of the liberal cross-border branching provisions in the single banking license available to banks  in the EU. In return for the privilege of such a license, the bank agrees to be subject to a legal closure rule  as a positive capital ratio established by the EU or the home country."--Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta web site.