The last several decades have seen a dramatic increase in the value, number and speed of cross-border securities transactions, facilitated by advances in technology. Legal uncertainty as to the law governing the perfection, priority and other effects of transfers imposes significant friction costs on even routine transactions and operates as an important constraint on desirable reductions in credit and liquidity exposures. To address the current uncertainties, the 19th Diplomatic Session of the Hague Conference on Private International Law unanimously adopted the Convention on the Law...

Les dernieres decennies ont vu un accroissement spectaculaire de la valeur, du nombre et de la vitesse des operations sur titres transfrontalieres, facilitees par les avancees technologiques. L'incertitude juridique quant a la loi regissant l'opposabilite, la priorite et les autres effets des transferts imposent d'importants couts frictionnels meme pour les operations de routine, et constitue une contrainte importante affectant les reductions souhaitables des risques de credit et de liquidite. Afin de pallier les incertitudes actuelles, la Dix-neuvieme session diplomatique de la Conference de...

This present publication represents the second volume of a series entitled Proceedings of the Nineteenth Session, which encompasses all documents relating to the Nineteenth Session of the Hague Conference on Private International Law. This volume is particularly dedicated to the work undertaken by the Hague Conference in fields as many and varied as international family law (international adoption, child abduction, succession), international commercial and finance law, as well as international judicial and administrative co-operation (service, taking of evidence, legalisation)....