Titova A. Settlement relations in the field of e-commerce

The dissertation is a complex scientific research of civil law regulation of alternative means of payment in the field of e-commerce, during which features of certain scientific categories and concepts are defined and offers on improvement of the national civil legislation of Ukraine for increase of efficiency of regulation of relations between payers and recipients of payments for electronic transactions and remote payments in the field of e-commerce. As a result of the study, the concept of the category «e-commerce», which is proposed to extend to legal relations arising not only because of electronic (commercial) transactions, but also to relations related to information services, the provision of which is not paid by their recipients, due to the onset of a positive social effect. In the dissertation work the definition of the concept, features and types of the settlements in the field of e-commerce is investigated. According to the results of the dissertation research, the classification of the settlements in the field of e-commerce according to certain criteria - cash, non-cash, electronic payments is proposed. Special features of electronic settlements as a conditional category and superstructure over classical (cash and non-cash) types of settlements are determined. During the dissertation research the characteristics of the most modern means of payment, such as mobile money, electronic money, cryptocurrencies and other virtual assets, are singled out and given.