Abstract: This article directs attention to the gaps in legal regulation of transboundary securities transactions in light on enactment of the Hague Convention on “Certain Rights in Respect of Securities held with an Intermediary”. The author examines the prerequisites for creating such document that emphasize its importance and relevance for the stock market participant, as well as describes the key features of the proposed by Convention legal regulation with examples. Analysis of applicability of the document for the Russian legal reality and prospects of potential implementation is provided. The scientific novelty lies in the insufficient familiarization with the topic of transboundary securities turnover in the Russian Federation. Using the practical examples, the author demonstrates the applicability and relevance of the new approaches suggested by the Convention, as well as analyzes their strong and weak aspects. The article also depicts the problems emerging in foreign countries in terms of the transboundary securities turnover and their causes. A conclusion is made on the possibilities of implementation of Convention regulations in the Russian Federation.

Abstract: The article is devoted to the indirect holding system formed in the Republic of Germany as well as legal problems arising in this indirect holding system. It is established that the main feature of German indirect holding system is the co-ownership right to the securities held in safe custody. The main characteristics of this co-ownership model were identified and described in the article. Moreover, the author also analyzes situations with legal uncertainty that may be caused by the indirect holding system model. The ways to resolve this uncertainty in case study and in doctrine are specifically considered. In addition, the author also touches upon the questions of cross-border transactions of securities. The main research method chosen by the author is the comparative law analysis. According to the author, analysis of Germany's experience in accounting and securities turnover is of great scientific interest for further discussion and development of cross-border securities turnover regulation in the Russian Federation. The author describes traditional conflicts of law rules applicable to these issues as well as new international and EU approaches to the matter. The influence of the new conflict of law approaches to the German law is the subject of this article. In conclusion the author makes necessary comments about the future of German indirect holding system and possible ways of its modernization. 

Abstract: The object of this research is the formation and development of the PRIMA connection factor aimed at regulation of the relations associated with the transboundary transaction of the bonds. Currently, there is no single contentious approach for resolution of such issues.  The national substantive law and/or conflict of laws is most often implemented in practice. The formulated in 2000’s contentious principle of PRIMA, including its modifications, suggested by the Hague Convention on securities, is in need for further improvements and is not currently applied by the participants of the stock market. In absence of a single approach, the risk of invalidity of, for example, law selected by the parties in the aforementioned relations is rather high. The main goal of this work consist in determination of which law will be implemented for the regulation of certain relations. Due to the fact that conflict of laws method is capable to distinguish the applicable law, although the specific disposition, hypothesis or sanction of legal relation will be contained in the substantive norms of the selected in correspondences with the conflict of laws method of legal order, the author use the substantive legal method in this research. The main result of this work lies in the analysis of various options of the connection element PRIMA, determination of its positive and negative aspects (including the risks associated with the use of one or another option), as well as future direction of the development for regulation of the assigned area of relations.