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Information obligations of financial market entities towards the Czech National Bank
Havlovicová, Jaroslava ; Vybíral, Roman (advisor) ; Kotáb, Petr (referee)
Information obligations of financial market entities towards the Czech National Bank Abstract The information obligations imposed on financial market participants are one of the most important mechanisms for supervisors to properly exercise their powers. In the absence of information obligations on financial market participants, regulation of their activities would be 'blind'. The thesis aims to provide a thorough presentation of the theoretical foundations on which the information obligation is based. It characterises the supervisory authorities at national and EU level, defines their powers and the tools used by obliged entities to provide information. On the other hand, the characteristics of each group of obliged entities and the legal framework of their activities are defined. At the same time, the work does not neglect the closely related issue of consumer protection, which is a significantly weaker party in the environment of financial markets in the legal relations arising here. The rigorous thesis focuses in detail on the legal regulations embedding the information obligation into the Czech legal system, in particular the laws regulating specific sectors of the financial market and the sub-legal regulations of the Czech National Bank, on the basis of which the obliged entities fulfil their...
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Consumer protection options for one-sided contracting in the financial sector
Bažant, David ; Liška, Petr (referee)
Consumer protection options for one-sided contracting in the financial sector Abstract This thesis analyses the problems between consumers and business professionals in the financial sector. The author has chosen this topic because it seriously impacts everyone who intends to sign a contract for financial services. The significant imbalance between the contracting parties brings a risk that the stronger and more informed party will abuse its position to gain a disproportionate advantage. A legal system tries to redress this imbalance through the legal institutes for consumer protection. The law maker seeks to prevent the undesirable events that have occurred in the past and continue to occur by interfering with private law relations because of the public interest in consumer protection. The aim of the thesis is to provide an overview of the available options of consumer protection and to evaluate legal institutes that are the most effective for consumers. The thesis is primarily based on the analysis of the regulations and l legal publications, conceptual documents prepared by the European Union bureaucracy. Furthermore, the analysis presented here, evaluates the implementation and adoption of the European directives and the approach of the courts in selected Member States in the review of unfair terms....
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