In this thesis, the author aimed to describe the specifics of agreements on financial collateral in accordance with section 323a of the act no. 513/1991 Coll. the commercial code, as amended. The Author used a method consiting of describing the purpouses of traditional elements of those security instruments, which are broken and modified by the provisions enabling agreements on financial collateral in the first part of the thesis, and further applied the purposes to the provisions enabeling the agreements on financial collateral itself in the second part of this thesis. As to the additional method of approach, the author judged this security instrument from the point of values and principles, which are the most reflected in its provisions. Author implied that the specifics of an agreement on financial collateral consist in vast differences from the traditional security instruments. These differences lie in the area of formation of such security instrument, the area of rights and duties of the contracting parties during the existence of the financial collateral, as well as the possibilities of the satisfaction of the creditor from the collateral. Author's conclusions may be summarized by the following. Agreements on financial collateral are characteristic by high extent of application of the...

Title Financial Security ANNOTATION The diploma work presented deals with financial security, i.e. with one of the methods of securing an obligation, as set out under the provision of Section 323a et seq. of Act No. 513/1991 Coll., The Commercial Code, as amended. In the work as a whole, I deal in detail, on the one hand, with description of the above- mentioned legal institution, financial security, in the form ascribed to it presently by the valid and effective legal regulations in the Czech Republic. Thus, I deal with the concept of financial security in our system of law, origin of the legal institution and its inclusion in the system of law of the Czech Republic, while defining the fundamental notions being necessary to study this part of the commercial law of the Czech Republic. Further, I address explanatory and interpretation problems of financial security, both in the light of the European Union's legal regulations, which are, if simplifying, a template for our legal regulations concerning financial security, and from the point of view of our reputable law specialists, who dealt with financial security in specialised publications, in particular in their commentaries on the Commercial Code, and in articles published in professional periodicals. Also I devote a significant part of this work to the...

This paper deals with the phenomenon of the financial collateral arrangements, under which parties transfer book-entry securities. It focuses on the legal questions link to the international element. Financial collateral arrangements typically occur in securities repurchase and securities lending. These transactions play important role in order to guarantee liquidity cash and proper functioning of capital markets in the European Union. Simultaneously, securities are no longer only of a tangible goods nature; instead they exists as electronic records in securities accounts. This is why conflicts of law issues have become so paramount. This study analyses the approach of Czech law to financial collateral arrangements. In particular, if the collateral is represented by a book-entry share, bond or fund unit. It pays attention to such a matter from the national as well as the harmonised EU perspective. On an EU level, such arrangements are primarily regulated by the Collateral Directive (FCAD). The Hague Convection on the Law Applicable to Certain Rights in Respect of Securities held with Intermediaries, which has had a profound impact on the notion of book-entry securities conflicts of law rules, is specifically discussed too. Both methods to provide financial collateral, i.e. the outright transfer and...

Since the 1980s, regulators in the U.S. and the U.K. have protected the collateral taker's right to re-use securities collateral in securities financing and OTC derivatives markets on the understanding that it would promote liquidity and credit growth, and reduce systemic risk. However, this rationale was incomplete: it failed to acknowledge the full implications of collateral re-use for systemic risk. In this dissertation, I aim to complete that understanding by illustrating how the re-use of securities collateral in those markets can aggravate systemic risk. In particular, I describe two effects. First, re-using securities collateral multiplies the number of market participants that will be exposed to changes in the price of the collateral asset and can thus amplify the role of asset prices as channels of contagion. Second, by conferring a right to re-use, the collateral provider will effectively waive its proprietary interests in the collateral assets and retain a mere contractual claim against the collateral taker for the return of equivalent securities. This transformation will accentuate the incentive of the collateral provider to run from an over-collateralised collateral taker if the latter were to experience financial difficulty. Information asymmetries and a lack of coordination among collateral providers could push the collateral taker over the brink of insolvency. These risks pose an obvious question for regulators: what should we do about collateral re-use? At a time when international bodies are drawing their attention to this widespread market practice, the question is an invitation to a very timely reflection. The final chapter of the dissertation offers an answer to this question and assesses the potential efficacy of the most recent regulatory initiatives in relation to collateral re-use.

La construction des garanties réelles dans le Code monétaire et financier s’est faite sans approche coordonnée. Le législateur s’est limité à produire des réponses pragmatiques aux besoins des praticiens, dotant ces garanties d'une souplesse et d'une sécurité renforcées. Or, seul le caractère dérogatoire des mesures qui visent à renforcer la sécurité, face aux procédures collectives notamment, caractérise ce que nous identifions comme des garanties réelles dérogatoires tant des garanties réelles de droit commun que des autres garanties sur actifs financiers. Il convient alors d’en tirer les conséquences pour proposer une construction rationnelle d’une garantie réelle financière unique mais protéiforme. C’est l’entrée en vigueur de la directive 2002/47/CE et sa transposition en droit français qui invitent à envisager un remodelage des garanties sur actifs financiers. Une approche commune et unitaire inspirée par cette directive paraît inévitable pour la cohérence de la matière. / France has introduced in the Financial and Monetary Code various types of financial collateral arrangements without organising nor recognising such category. Acting on a case by case basis, the legislator has provided pragmatic tools which offer to the security taker a better flexibility together with an improved security through timely and bankruptcy-remote enforcement. The derogatory regimes appear to be the focal point that characterizes all financial collateral arrangements. The intention of this work is to put forward a unified approach which trades the various types of arrangements in the current heterogeneous set up, often overlapping in their scope of application, for a unique multi-fold financial collateral agreement. In doing so, we assess how such a unified approach, close to the method of the EU Collateral directive can, not only be compatible with our legal concepts, but even offer better clarity to the collateral arrangements, and a strengthened legal certainty.

L’objet de cette thèse est de déterminer la nature et le régime d’un contrat financier appelé "equity swaps".L’equity swap est un contrat bilatéral qui permet à l’une des parties d’acquérir la propriété économique d’actions indiquées par les parties. Ces actions sont appelées « actions sous-jacentes ». Elles ne forment pas l’objet des obligations du contrat. Ce dernier ne donne naissance qu’à des dettes de valeur. C’est la nature particulière de ces obligations qui permet de rattacher les equity swaps à la catégorie des contrats financiers.Les actions sous-jacentes constituent donc le support des valeurs que chacune des parties s’engagent réciproquement à se payer. Ces valeurs représentent la propriété économique des actions sous-jacentes. Cette notion permet de distinguer les equity swaps des autres contrats financiers.La propriété économique répliquée par l’equity swap est toutefois source d’incertitudes. L’equity swap ne donne certes lieu à aucun transfert de propriété et aucune des parties n’est tenue de détenir les actions sous-jacentes. Mais un actionnaire peut conclure un equity swap afin de transférer la propriété économique de ses actions. En outre les equity swaps sont souvent utilisés par les investisseurs afin d’acquérir de façon occulte les actions de sociétés cotées. Bref, les parties à un equity swap n’ont pas toujours des motivations purement financières. La détermination du régime des equity swaps commande donc de s’interroger sur les conditions d’application du droit des sociétés et du droit boursier.Enfin, en tant que contrat financier, l’equity swap est censé être régi par la réglementation financière. Cette dernière était toutefois largement inadaptée aux contrats financiers. Elle doit être repensée. / The purpose of this study is to qualify and, consequently to specify the governing laws applicable to a derivative called “equity swap”.Equity swap is a bilateral contract which allows one of the parties to acquire economic ownership of some shares indicated by the parties. Those shares are called “underlying shares”. They are not due to be delivered by the parties. The parties to an equity swap are only due to pay to each other cash amounts representing values of the underlying shares. That is these very particular obligations which enable to qualify the equity swaps as derivatives.Thus, the underlying shares are used in order to calculate those cash amount so that they represent the economic ownership of the underlying shares. That is the reason why equity swaps are an original kind of derivatives.The economic ownership created by the equity swaps results in some legal uncertainty. Equity swap do not provide for assignment of legal ownership. And none of the parties is due to be the legal owner of the underlying shares. But a shareholder may enter into an equity swap in order to transfer the economic ownership of its shares and equity swaps are often used by investors in order to acquire hidden ownership in listed companies. In other words, parties do not enter into equity swaps for financial purpose only. Determining the laws applicable to the equity swaps requires to analyze companies law and stock exchange law.At last, as a derivative the equity swap is supposed to be governed by financial regulation. This regulation does not fit with derivatives. It needs to be specified.