Nurzad I. Legal Regulation of Banks' Activities in the Securities Market of Ukraine.

Thesis is an independent academic work, the first in Ukraine comprehensive research of legal regulation of banks' activities in the securities market of Ukraine. The issues of legal nature and definition of securities are analyzed. The subject of analysis also includes analysis of legal status of commercial banks as well as the peculiarities of the legal status of the National Bank of Ukraine in the securities market. In the latter case, two components of the NBU's legal status, i.e., as a state regulator and as a private participant in the securities market, are researched. A special attention is paid to the analysis of legal procedure whereby operation of commercial banks in the securities market is regulated. The latter includes three components, which can be described depending on the three capacities in which a bank may participate in the securities market: bank as a securities issuer, bank as an investor and bank as a professional participant in the securities market. Special attention is paid to certain theoretical and practical problems, which arise with regard to the operation of banks in Ukraine's securities market. In this respect, the author of the research suggests the possible ways of solving these problems.