LEGAL REGULATION OF ELECTRONIC MONEY IN INTERNATIONAL MONETARY LAW
Abstract
The subject of the analysis in this paper is the examination of the legal
regulation of electronic money in international monetary law. In this
context, the first part of the paper points to the influence of electronic
media on the development of international monetary law, which is today
most evident in the emergence of electronic money that redefines
traditional money functions. The author therefore deals with the
argumentative search for a potential answer to the question of whether
the role of the issuer of electronic money should be found in the central
bank, the government, the banking system or an international monetary
legal entity such as International Monetary Fund, which operates outside
the framework of the national monetary jurisdiction in view of the
extraterritorial effects of using such money in the financial market. In
further text, attention is paid to the advantages and disadvantages of the
use of electronic money in commercial transport, the redefinition of state
nominalism (lex monetae) and a different understanding of monetary
aggregates. The author conclude that international monetary legislator is
expected to solve the problem of discrepancy between the globalized
financial market, on the one hand, and the fragmentation of the monetary
system, on the other hand (which not include monetary union with
centralized monetary policy) in the future period.