The legislative regulation and modernization of the turnover of electronic equivalents of obligations and claims of business entities in Russia and some foreign countries

Introduction: modern society has transitioned into the neo-industrial era, bringing with it technological innovations that impact social relations. The latest investment objects - crypto objects - have entered into circulation. Utilitarian digital rights, digital financial assets, and digital currencies as new objects of civil rights are called by the legislator as a set of electronic data. Cryptographic records represent electronic equivalents of obligations and claims, are allowed by the legislator as objects of investment, and are the next stage in the development of the form of non-documentary securities. All this has led to the need to create a new legislative framework for citizens and business participants in the field of banking and investment. The purpose of the study: the author aims to analyze two main approaches, whereby today there is a statutory regulation of public relations in the field of investment in the information space - the process of applying existing normative acts to regulate the turnover of electronic equivalents of obligations and claims of business entities and the regulation of investment relations by introducing new normative acts that will be changed and supplemented with taking into account the changes in the external environment. Research objectives: to achieve this goal, the main body of the legal norms regulating public relations in the field of investment in the information space, primarily the civil legislation, is studied. Among the analyzed acts regulating the turnover of electronic equivalents of obligations and claims in investments: the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, Federal Law No. 39-FZ of April 22, 1996 on the Securities Market, Federal Law No. 259-FZ of July 31, 2020 on Digital Financial Assets, Digital Currency and Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation, Federal Law No. 259-FZ of August 2, 2019 on Attracting Investments using Investment Platforms and Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation, Federal Law No. 86-FZ of July 10, 2002 on the Central Bank of the Russian Federation (Bank of Russia), and other federal laws and regulations.