Prudential Supervision of the Banking System, edited by Bernard Galvin, is a collection of papers from a seminar held under the auspices of the Institute of Policy Studies of Victoria University of Wellington at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Wellington, on Tuesday 25 August 1992.

The issue of prudential surveillance of the financial system , usually by the central bank, has attracted considerable attention in recent times. This reflects in part the failures of financial institutions that have occurred in a number of countries in the Western world.