Digital rights in the russian financial system: legal aspect

Abstract

In the program of studying the disciplines “Investment Law”, “Civil Law”, “Business Law” and a number of other disciplines, the issue of digital rights, a clear definition of their legal status in the system of objects of rights, the distinction between different types of digital rights, etc., is currently becoming a significant issue for study. This is especially important, given the tendency to increase the digitalization of economic turnover and, accordingly, the adaptation of the legal system, as well as those problems of legal regulation that are associated with a very large uncertainty and different approaches to determining the status of digital rights and their types. It is extremely difficult for students to understand a huge number of different, sometimes contradictory points of view. We have made an attempt to bring some clarity to this issue, taking into account the author’s position.The article analyzes the issue of the differentiation of certain types of digital rights, the differentiation of digital financial assets and digital utilitarian rights from non-documentary securities, certain aspects of the regulation of such financial instruments in foreign legal systems, the current use and the possibility of using these financial instruments on investment platforms not only as a means of investing in the future.