This adds to India’s push to develop GIFT City — or Gujarat International Finance Tec-City, as a rival to financial hubs in Singapore and Dubai. India has rolled out a number of steps to burnish its lure, offering exemptions from rules and taxes that weigh on trading in the rest of the country.
ANZ Group Holdings Ltd. and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. are among some of the latest entrants to the zone that’s a flagship project of Prime Minister Narendra Modi who returned to power for a third term this month.
CapitaLand will seek to launch different private funds including equity and debt from the GIFT City, serving global clients, the people said. Such funds will generally focus on commercial real estate including IT parks and data centers, they added.
CapitaLand and IFSCA did not reply to Bloomberg’s e-mails seeking comments on the matter.
