Aspectos civiles del contrato de permuta financiera de tipos de interés

Resum

A SWAP contract is a financial product that has caused, in recent years, a remarkable media interest due, firstly, to its massive sale, and secondly, in a context of widespread crisis, to some doubts about the benefits for the credit customer. There have been a need for correcting certain legal aspects, often due to a lack not only of their meaning and function in credit markets but also of their legal structure. The thesis aims to diagnose the problems that most frequently are generated in the practice and give shape to the character of this variety of swap, whose modelling is the freedom of the parties who, practising their autonomy, have made an entire legal regime in the absence of national or international legislation. It should be noted that often, only returning to the basic principles of the contractual obligations law is the most satisfactory solution to the conflict of interests. Based on this premise, the study is divided into the following three parts: In the first part, the swap is defined and framed in a particular economic context, analyzing the legal position of the parties. The usual way of the contract requires a number of peculiarities due to its extreme volatility and the use of framework contracts and regulations because of the absence of a national law. After analyzing the origin of the Swap and the basic elements of the contract, the study focuses on the consent and its substantive and procedural problems. In Spain, there have been numerous sentences in recent years, compelling banks to inform about financial products to their customers. Unexpected fluctuations revealed that a number of clients were not familiar with the operation and consequences of the products they contracted. At this point, it is analysed the procedure for annuling the contract (legitimation, recurring arguments, arbitration) as well as the study of some of The most important Supreme Court decisions. The second part addresses the legal nature of the Swap-Irs contract, which is characterized as atypical, randomized, bilateral, synallagmatic, onerous and consensual from the point of view of its perfection. The unusualness of the swap agreement is the most prominent, but not the only one, source of trouble since Article 2 of the Securities Market Act recognizes that there are included within the classification but it has not legal specific framework. What has been mencioned previously about some defining features of the swap agreement has important consequences in the field of bankruptcy proceedings. For example, one wonders what would happen if the Swap contract was considered as subject to condition precedent, as a sector of the doctrine claims. The third part has a long history of development since its origins date from 2009, following the judgment of the Commercial Court No. 3 of Valencia branding Swap contracts' credits as subordinates whether the swap was autonomous (at least it recognized that possibility) as if it was linked to an active operation. The work focuses on the search for an argument to defend the weak point of credit derivatives swaps, which, digging into the matter led to two conclusions, around which turns this part of the study: (I) The basis of the recurring arguments of the courts is in the nature of the contract (ii) by destroying certain defining elements it could be questioned the applicability of two provisions: Article sixty-one of the Insolvency Act regulating rating subordinated claims and the Royal Decree Law 5/2005 in its application to swap transactions. Thus, what had overtones of practicality has become a doctrinal analysis of the elements of the contract, its nature, its possible subsumption in other typical and jurisprudential problematic figures, all beginning with its origin clause in the financing agreements and ending with a detailed analysis of their characters as the legal nature to determine how it affects this analysis in the regulations we appy.