Public Interest as a Basis for Protection of Financial Security

The article is devoted to the legal nature of public interest and financial security, as well as the definition of the role of public interest in the formation of a national mechanism for the legal provision of financial security. In theory and practice, there is a high theoretical, methodological and methodological uncertainty of the concepts of “public interest” and “financial security”. The general and specific features and conceptual features of the formation of public interest, as well as the possibility of its implementation in the mechanism of legal provision of financial security, are outlined. The authors of the article limited themselves to considering issues of public interest as the basis for ensuring financial security. In the course of the study of the designated topic, general scientific and private scientific research methods were used, such as formal legal, systemic structural, logical, comparative legal, method of analysis and synthesis. In conclusion, the authors formulated and justified their own position on the concept of public interest and financial security, noting that public interest, in specific political and legal conditions, acquires increased importance for a state-organized society as a condition for its existence and becomes a national interest. The authors draw attention to the fact that it is the public interests that essentially underlie financial security that determine the identification of challenges and threats, and through this, the definition of forms and methods of ensuring.