Website: Hague Convention

The great majority of securities in the financial markets are now held in electronic book entry form in securities accounts with custodians or depositaries or settlement systems resulting in proprietary rights in or for the delivery or transfer of the securities concerned.
The Hague Convention on the law applicable to certain rights in respect of securities held with an intermediary, agreed on 13 December 2002, is an international multilateral treaty intended to remove, at a global scale, legal uncertainties for cross-border securities transactions.

Hague Conference on Private International Law http://www.hcch.net/

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