Gujarat's fintech dominance
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GIFT City is a gift from our Prime Minister in its truest form.- A new business destination offering a competitive edge to financial services and technology-related activities.
- Built of about 62 million sq ft of the built-up area would be developed and 67 percent of it would be commercial space, 22 percent residential space, and 11 percent as social space.
- Offer a new realm of transparency in the Gold Global Market.
- Making India a financial superpower.
- According to the Ministry of Finance, Sitharaman formally approved Rs 269.05 crore for the supervisory technology fund for IT infrastructure and Rs 200 crore for the headquarters building.
- During her one-day visit to GIFT City on Saturday, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced the approval of two IFSCA applications totaling Rs 469 crore.
- Yotta Infrastructure, the Hiranandani Group's data center business in India, is in discussions to obtain Rs 4,000 crore in funding to fuel its data center business expansion.
- A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed by Yes Bank and GIFT City, India's first operational smart city and International Financial Services Centre (IFSC), to boost GIFT City's fintech ecosystem.
- To expand international investment, the budget may tackle some hurdles that crop up as one looks at the International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) in GIFT City as a quasi-foreign territory through the prism of the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA),
- As per the last official estimate given by the Minister of State for Electronics & information technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar on March 17, around $200 million of the nearly $1 billion stuck in SVB was attributable to Indian companies, was transferred to Gift City accounts.
- Australian University - Dekin, which will be the first foreign education institution to set up a campus in GIFT City (Gujarat International Finance Tec-City), will roll out academic programs from July 2024
- After a feasibility study by consulting firm McKinsey and Co, GIFT was launched as a joint venture between the state-run Gujarat Urban Development Co. Ltd and Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services Ltd (IL&FS), with an initial outlay of Rs 78,000 crores.
- Recently, on August 23, Chartered Speed Ltd. launched a fleet of four electric buses and 20 e-bikes to aid commuters to GIFT City. The company has plans to expand the fleet to 50 electric buses in the coming 12 to 18 months.
- A Plethora of fintech brands came to celebrate the financial capital of India at Gujarat's international finance tech city. Oracle was amongst the first.
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