FX 마진거래 규제의 법적 과제

After Financial Investment Service and Capital Market Act was enacted, the volume of the FX margin trading has been increased dramtically as securities companies provide customers with the brokerage business for the FX margin trading. However, to trade the cross-currency pairs through the foreign futures commission merchant has not been helpful for the stability of the Korean KRW/USD forex market. Rather, the most of investors in the FX margin trading are individual investors suffering huge loss, and the social problem due to the illegal practice by the bucket shops has been raised. Investors could claim against the securities companies for the liability for damage because the FX margin trading has the feature of gambling in terms of the structure of the product. Thus, in order to minimize the loss of investors, the access of the non-professional investor with the purpose of speculation should be limited by being treated as over-the -counter derivative, and the range of leverage should be reduced to remove the speculative nature, and the strategy to prevent the conflict of interests between overseas FCM or domestic investment broker and investors inevitably generated by the nature of off-exchange trade should be developed. In addition, the FX margin trading should be included among subjects of the prohibition of the unsolicited call by considering that the nature of the FX margin trading is same with that of the over-the-counter derivative and the risk of loss of the individual investor with the purpose of speculation is very high. On the other hand, this also require the careful consideration because the stability of the Korean forex market could not be supported by the exchange trade of the FX margin trading without allowing KRW/USD margin trading.