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Global rules on foreign direct investment (FDI)
Cross-border acquisitions and investments increasingly trigger foreign direct investment (FDI) screening requirements.
United Kingdom | Publication | May 2020
The operational resilience of all firms is now being significantly tested, across people, systems, controls and processes. All firms are experiencing some kind of issues to manage or at least be mindful of, and the crisis is also throwing up new and different challenges to meet. Retail customers can be particularly affected, and fair customer treatment is now brought into sharp relief. Expectations around this will evolve as the crisis does, and being both agile and consistent will be very important for firms over the coming period.
From a principles basis, there are broadly six key stages recognised by regulators:
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These are also reinforced by various communications from regulators, including the recent FCA Business Plan.
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Cross-border acquisitions and investments increasingly trigger foreign direct investment (FDI) screening requirements.
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European asset managers are excited about the revised European long-term investment funds (ELTIF) regime and hope that the greater flexibility for managing and distributing ELTIFs will open up new markets for their long-term investment strategies.
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The recent publication of the Investment Association’s Second Interim Report on Fund Tokenisation and regular news articles in the financial press evidence continued enthusiasm for the adoption of digital technologies such as tokenisation amongst players in the financial services markets. Indeed, the global market for tokenised real-world assets is already currently estimated to be around $600 billion and has been predicted to reach $16 trillion by 2030.
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