Random article: Regulation of Derivatives
One of the main difficulties in regulation of financial market by state over the course of its entire history is the legal demarcation of transactions with derivative financial instruments from betting and gambling. This delimitation directly impacts on model of regulation, as well as on the possibility of providing people conducting operations on over-the-counter financial market and Forex market with a judicial protection.
All the time legislation of developed countries was rather critical towards gambling. In the eye of Roman private law, transactions aimed at gambling were the subject of criminal law, whereas parties of betting were denied judicial protection.