Abstract

The subject of this article, which consists of three parts, is presentation of legal, organizational and institutional, as well as technical and functional conditions occurring in the so-called integrated financial market, which determine both the need for constructing the category of legally protected information on that market, as well as limiting its objective and subjective scope, and resolving the criteria for division of this category into individualized legally protected information, such as „the stock exchange confidentiality”, which is an objectively profiled construction, and confidentialities of: investment funds, pension funds and insurance as subjective ones. Part I outlines the structure, function and extent of financial market regulation.