The United States’ first-of-its-kind outbound investment rule came into force in January, setting new regulations around capital flows into sensitive technologies in China. The rule also set a tone: Investments by and into foreign parties are increasingly now a national-security issue.
That reality put investment in the Brief’s wheelhouse in new ways. Over the course of 2025, we launched James Warner’s Investment Intel column, broke down the European Union’s own outbound-investment review and dug into the Chinese connections that may have undone a U.S. government contractor’s acquisition.
Then, this month, in a perhaps fitting bookend to the year, we covered how the COINS Act expands the scope of the U.S. outbound investment rule significantly.
Read the Brief’s six top investment and securities stories of 2025:
That reality put investment in the Brief’s wheelhouse in new ways. Over the course of 2025, we launched James Warner’s Investment Intel column, broke down the European Union’s own outbound-investment review and dug into the Chinese connections that may have undone a U.S. government contractor’s acquisition.
Then, this month, in a perhaps fitting bookend to the year, we covered how the COINS Act expands the scope of the U.S. outbound investment rule significantly.
Read the Brief’s six top investment and securities stories of 2025:
