Functional Business Entity

From Open Risk Manual

Definition

Functional Business Entity. A business entity defined in terms of its function

The key distinguishing feature of a functional business entity is that it may itself be constituted as some kind of business or legal entity, but the definition of this entity does not depend on it always having one specific legal structure (for example, always being a limited company). This would define for example a bank, a special purpose vehicle, most government bodies and so on.

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