The key features of a unique Russian model of FDI are characterized (“transit” nature of inward and outward FDI flows, offshorization of FDI, article gives the analysis of the long-term developments of global financial regulatory architecture (key stages of evolution in the past two centuries, regulatory cycles, major tendencies, transition to a multi-polar, multi-level regulatory structures). The origin and evolution of supranational regulatory bodies, currency zones, monetary unions and reserve currencу are discussed as well as their future developments.