{"id":86740,"date":"2024-06-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/2024\/06\/02\/pif-joins-the-push-to-have-wall-street-firms-declare-riyadh-their-regional-hq\/"},"modified":"2024-06-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-02T00:00:00","slug":"pif-joins-the-push-to-have-wall-street-firms-declare-riyadh-their-regional-hq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/2024\/06\/02\/pif-joins-the-push-to-have-wall-street-firms-declare-riyadh-their-regional-hq\/","title":{"rendered":"PIF joins the push to have Wall Street firms declare Riyadh their regional HQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"> <strong>The Public Investment Fund <\/strong><strong>is joining a wider government policy drive to prompt Wall <\/strong><strong>Street firms to set up <\/strong><strong>shop in Riyadh<\/strong>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2024-06-01\/saudi-arabia-puts-wall-street-on-notice-to-set-up-shop-in-riyadh\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Bloomberg reports<\/a>, citing people it says are familiar with the matter. The PIF has added language to documents it sends to potential service providers explicitly asking them whether they\u2019ve taken out a regional headquarters license in Saudi. The PIF has yet to formally require the license as a condition of doing business with the megafund. <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>What they said:<\/strong> \u201cOnce there is sufficient adoption of RHQ licenses in a sector, then it increases the pressure on other players in the sector to follow,\u201d Waleed Rasromani, national managing partner for Saudi Arabia at law firm Linklaters, told the business news service. \u201cMany firms in the financial industry are looking carefully at the RHQ rules at the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>Clarity coming? <\/strong>Many bankers are unsure how their Middle East operations (read: presence in the UAE) would have to change as a result of taking out a regional HQ license here. 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