Vol. 11 No. 53 (2022)
Articles

Consumers of financial services: features of the legal status in the conditions of financial inclusion

Svitlana Lepekh
Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv, Ukraine.
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Published 2022-07-04

Keywords

  • consumer, financial service, banking service, financial inclusion, bank, consumer information.

How to Cite

Lepekh, S. (2022). Consumers of financial services: features of the legal status in the conditions of financial inclusion. Amazonia Investiga, 11(53), 308–319. https://doi.org/10.34069/AI/2022.53.05.30

Abstract

The urgency of the study is due to the reform of the national legislation in the context of institutional transformation of the financial services market. The purpose of the study is to develop a scientific basis for legislative changes aimed at optimizing the legal status of individuals as consumers of financial services. The methodological basis of the study consists of general scientific and special legal methods, in particular, dialectical, statistical, comparative law, formal law, methods of sociological research, analysis and synthesis. The general principles of realization of such strategic direction of development of the market of financial services as financial inclusion and its influence on formation of legal requirements to the person of the consumer of such service are investigated in the article. The particular interest are scientific positions, legislative novelties on the definition of the scope of persons who have the status of consumers of financial services. The peculiarities of the acquisition of such status by minors and young persons, as well as the second spouse or a third party in the obligation are clarified. On the basis of the conducted research the corresponding conclusions are formulated.

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