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  2. Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act - Wikipedia

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    The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) is a 2010 U.S. federal law requiring all non-U.S. foreign financial institutions (FFIs) to search their records for customers with indicia of a connection to the U.S., including indications in records of birth or prior residency in the U.S., or the like, and to report such assets and identities of such persons to the United States Department of ...

  3. Net foreign assets - Wikipedia

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    In economics, the concept of net foreign assets relates to balance of payments identity.. The net foreign asset (NFA) position of a country is the value of its net claims on the rest of the world (RoW), i. e. the value of the assets that country owns abroad, minus the value of the domestic assets owned by foreigners:

  4. Financial asset - Wikipedia

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    A financial asset is a non-physical asset whose value is derived from a contractual claim, such as bank deposits, bonds, and participations in companies' share capital. Financial assets are usually more liquid than tangible assets , such as commodities or real estate.

  5. Current account (balance of payments) - Wikipedia

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    The United States, for example, gleans a substantially larger rate of return from foreign capital than foreigners do from owning United States capital. In the traditional accounting of balance of payments, the current account equals the change in net foreign assets. A current account deficit implies a reduction of net foreign assets:

  6. Global financial system - Wikipedia

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    The financial account summarizes the value of exports versus imports of assets, and the capital account summarizes the value of asset transfers received net of transfers given. The capital account also includes the official reserve account, which summarizes central banks' purchases and sales of domestic currency, foreign exchange, gold, and ...

  7. List of sovereign wealth funds by country - Wikipedia

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    A sovereign wealth fund (SWF) is a fund owned by a state (or a political subdivision of a federal state) composed of financial assets such as stocks, bonds, property or other financial instruments. Sovereign wealth funds are entities that manage the national savings for the purposes of investment.

  8. Capital account convertibility - Wikipedia

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    Capital account convertibility is a feature of a nation's financial regime that centers on the ability to conduct transactions of local financial assets into foreign financial assets freely or at market determined exchange rates. [1] It is sometimes referred to as capital asset liberation or CAC.

  9. Capital account - Wikipedia

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    By buying foreign currency or foreign financial assets (usually other governments' bonds), the central bank has a ready means to lower the value of its own currency; if it needs to, it can always create more of its own currency to fund these purchases. The risk, however, is general price inflation.