Pledge of digital rights to ensure the fulfillment of obligations of small and medium-sized companies

Zyulkov Dmitry

The article analyzes digital rights as an object of ensuring the fulfillment of obligations in lending to SMEs. The article examines "tokens", "big data", "social media accounts", "digital content" and "domain names", their legal nature, the possibility of transferring them as collateral, and the practical problems that arise when transferring them to a lender in case of default. Attention is drawn to the fact that digital rights as objects of enforcement of obligations have property value and are of interest to participants in civil turnover. Currently, the companies present tools for tracking the performance of obligations and the implementation of the forced transfer of digital rights to the pledgee.

Keywords:collateral, collateral, tokens, big data, social media accounts, digital content, domain names.