MEASURES FOR THE PROTECTION OF REPURCHASE AGREEMENT IN BANKRUPTCY AND REORGANIZATION PROCEEDING A CASE OF THE AVOIDANCE OF FRAUDULENT ACTS AND PREFERENCES
Abstract:
The repurchase agreement is the agreement that supports financial liquidity management of the private sector to be flexible and effective as well as being the monetary policy through the open market operations of the Bank of Thailand. This thesis focuses on the concepts and characteristic of repurchase agreement, bankruptcy and reorganization laws, avoidance of fraudulent acts and preferences under bankruptcy and reorganization proceeding. According to the study, it is found that the certainty, predictability, and finality of the bankruptcy and reorganization procedures on the transfers of assets and payments of repurchase agreement is the factor that helps reducing and preventing the systemic risk which would cause chain damage in the financial system and promote financial stability and economic growth. However, the enforcement of the provisions of laws on the avoidance of fraudulent acts and preferences under the Bankruptcy Act B.E. 2483 and the avoidance of fraudulent acts under the Civil and Commercial Code on the transfer of assets and payment under the repurchase agreement can pose the systemic risk to the financial system. Thus, this thesis proposes the exemption of enforceability the avoidance of fraudulent acts and preferences under the Bankruptcy Act B.E. 2483 and the Civil and Commercial Code for the payment and transfer of assets under the repurchase agreement with specifying the characteristics of agreement to be exempted and the exceptions for actual fraudulent intent including the guidelines in recovering the properties from the counterparty.