BCLP’s Christine Graham featured in Asset Servicing Times: The scale and proliferation of FDI screening regimes

Speaking on the growth of investment screening measures, Christine highlighted the dramatic expansion of FDI review frameworks, noting that all 27 EU Member States now operate screening mechanisms, compared with just 12 a decade ago.

She emphasised that, while the proliferation of regimes presents compliance challenges, the greater issue for investors and businesses is the increasing divergence between national approaches. Christine also pointed to the UK’s National Security and Investment Act (NSIA) as a particularly significant development, citing its broad scope, mandatory notification requirements across 17 sensitive sectors, and its application to both UK and overseas investors.

Commenting on current enforcement priorities, Christine noted that authorities remain focused on areas such as artificial intelligence, semiconductors, critical infrastructure, critical raw materials and businesses handling sensitive data: