It is hoped that with adequate and timely information potential investors can make correct judgement/assessment of this market. The choice of Basel II as a topic for discussion during the workshop is indeed timely. Basel II represents a crossroad, a watershed and a turning point for the future of global supervisory practices.
For example, the rise in house prices in the United Kingdom in the late 1980s was thought at the time to relate importantly to the liberalization of U.K. banking laws several years earlier and, therefore, likely to be sustainable. As it turned out, the run-up ended fairly soon and was followed by a steep decline.