France has introduced in the Financial and Monetary Code various types of financial collateral arrangements without organising nor recognising such category. Acting on a case by case basis, the legislator has provided pragmatic tools which offer to the security taker a better flexibility together with an improved security through timely and bankruptcy-remote enforcement. The derogatory regimes appear to be the focal point that characterizes all financial collateral arrangements. The intention of this work is to put forward a unified approach which trades the various types of arrangements in the current heterogeneous set up, often overlapping in their scope of application, for a unique multi-fold financial collateral agreement. In doing so, we assess how such a unified approach, close to the method of the EU Collateral directive can, not only be compatible with our legal concepts, but even offer better clarity to the collateral arrangements, and a strengthened legal certainty.
Derogatory financial collateral arrangements in the financial and monetary code