Can GIFT City Become A Global Financial Hub? IFSCA’s Dipesh Shah On The Next 5 Years

Can GIFT City emerge as one of the world's major financial hubs over the next five years? Dr. Dipesh Shah, Executive Director at the International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA), outlines the regulator's vision for the next phase of GIFT IFSC's growth. He discusses what success would look like from a regulatory perspective, the possibility of the ecosystem crossing 5,000 firms, and India's ambition to develop GIFT City into a global asset management hub. As GIFT IFSC expands across banking, fund management, insurance, wealth management, capital markets, fintech and global treasury operations, the focus is increasingly shifting from building the ecosystem to achieving global scale. What could GIFT City look like five years from now, and what will it take for India to establish itself as a serious global financial and asset management centre? Watch Dr. Dipesh Shah explain.