The Role of Infrastructure Potential of the Financial Market in Ensuring its Flexibility and Security

The article is dedicated to determining the role of infrastructure potential of the financial market in ensuring its security and flexibility. The aim of the article is to assess the role of infrastructure potential of the financial market in ensuring its flexibility and security. Threats to the financial market security are systematized by sources of formation, scale, duration and nature of influence. The essence of security and flexibility of the financial market is defined. There systematized indicators of security and flexibility of the financial market in interrelation with the components of infrastructure potential of the financial market. The methodology for determining the level of economic safety and flexibility of the financial market is substantiated, the corresponding calculations are made. Also the methodology for calculating the normalized index of the infrastructure potential of the financial market is developed. The correlation-regression analysis of the connection between development of the infrastructure potential of the financial market, its security and flexibility is carried out. The results of the calculations showed that the degree of implementation of the financial market infrastructure potential at the current stage of development of the Ukrainian economy is insufficient. It does not contribute to achieving the necessary level of flexibility and security of the financial market. Each of the components of infrastructure potential requires changing approaches to regulation aimed at ensuring the systematic development of the financial market. Most of the identified problems are mainly related to dysfunctionality of the technological and information components of the infrastructural potential of the financial market. This is manifested in the low level of confidence in it from the part of the household sector as well as in the poor efficiency of regulation of certain segments of the financial market. That is why the prospects for further research are to identify areas for increasing the role of technological and information components of the infrastructure potential of the financial market