Will stricter FDI screening regimes linger beyond Covid?
Harsher FDI screening regimes have been an emerging trend in recent years, and were accelerated by the Covid-19 outbreak, but will these rules last beyond the pandemic?
Viola Caon
Senior editor
Viola Caon is a senior editor at Investment Monitor, focusing on infrastructure, logistics and the Americas market. She joined from Euromoney’s IJGlobal, where she covered private investment in energy and infrastructure for the past four years after covering the asset management sector more broadly. Viola has extensive knowledge of the institutional investment world and has focused on fund investments both in infrastructure and across other asset classes at a global level since the beginning of her career in 2012.
Articles by Viola Caon
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The presence and quality of infrastructure is generally a key driver for most foreign investors. However, Covid-19 may have changed the hierarchy in favour of digital infrastructure.
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