Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC)
The DIFC is the world's newest international financial centre. It aims to develop the same stature as New York, London and Hong Kong.
The DIFC is made up of the following core divisions:
DIFC Development Authority The holding company for the DIFC, dedicated to helping businessess set up in the centre.
Dubai International Financial Exchange (DIFX) A liquid and transparent electronic market, trading equities, bonds and derivatives and located in the DIFC.
DIFC Land Company The purpose-built financial district in the heart of Dubai from where DIFC licensees will operate.
Activities within the DIFC are governed by: Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) A regulatory and supervisory body of the highest quality and staffed by experts from leading regulatory agencies around the world, created to license and regulate businesses in the DIFC.
45 towers - approximately 30% residential and 70% commercial
DIFC
Dubai is today one of the fastest growing cities in the world. This provides limitless investment opportunities particularly with a focus on Dubai International financial Centre. A perfectly planned and balanced financial capital that will change and enhance the way the world thinks and trades.
Dubai International financial Centre has multiple advantages, including being at a strategic location, and almost equidistant between the financial centres of Asia and Europe. Permitting seamless operations and transitions through the day as a matter of course. A full-fledged onshore capital market in line with London, New York and Hong Kong. Dubai International financial Centre is the place to do business and to invest in today.
Since it opened in September 2004, the DIFC has attracted high calibre firms from around the globe as well as its region. A world-class stock exchange, the Dubai International Financial Exchange (DIFX), opened in the DIFC in September 2005.
The DIFC is a 110-acre free zone. It is part of the larger vision of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, together with the Government of Dubai, to create an environment for progress and economic development in the UAE and the wider region. |
