Securities Custody Services: International Experience

Abstract

The relevance of the study is explained by the underdevelopment of the securities market in Ukraine, which barely started establishing the institutions and mechanisms of a market economy. Ukraine has a decentralised system of depository services, which hinders the development of the stock market, because the decentralised system of accounting for rights to securities complicates the procedure of transactions and increases risks. The purpose of the study was to investigate the international experience of securities depository in the rapidly expanding securities markets, especially in Eastern Europe and Asia, their technology, identifying their new functionality and dominant models of their architecture in the context of regulation, interaction of market participants and protection of their property rights. The main methods of study of international experience in the provision of securities custody services were empirical, analytical, and inductive methods, which together allowed describing the systems of securities circulation in different countries, analysing them to identify common features that are important for their implementation in Ukraine for integration into the global system of redistribution of financial resources. The study considered various securities storage systems, national depository systems, covered the features of national mechanisms of interconnection of all participants in the securities market, identified conceptual problems of securities market organisation in Ukraine, substantiated the need to adapt international experience for institutional development of the national depository system of Ukraine. The materials of the study have practical value for the development of the depository system in Ukraine as a basis for the functioning of the securities market, compatible with technological international depository systems in full functionality, which guarantees investors' property rights and enables Ukraine to become a full-fledged redistributor of global financial resources and, accordingly, to attract investments for economic development pursuant to international rules and standards of “transparent” functioning of securities markets, thus putting institutional barriers to corruption influences. The comparative analysis of depository systems of different countries allowed covering weaknesses in the existing depository system of Ukraine, outlining the conceptual approaches to legislative and organisational actions on its development