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DIFC work-from-home considerations
Remote work turned abruptly from occasional perk to mainstream operating model when global lockdowns struck. Yet, the regulatory perimeter for Dubai International Financial Centre firms hardly shifted at all. The Dubai Financial Services Authority did not publish a dedicated section in its Rulebook that says “you must perform steps one through ten when an employee […]
What DIFC offers Hong Kong companies
Dubai International Financial Centre has spent the past two decades turning a patch of desert on Sheikh Zayed Road into one of the world’s ten most influential on shore finance hubs. A common-law court, the Dubai Financial Services Authority regulator and a guaranteed zero tax window until 2054 have already pulled more than two thousand […]
DIFC Employee Workplace Savings
For more than four decades the end-of-service gratuity, a single lump sum paid when an employee left, shaped how most private-sector staff in the United Arab Emirates planned for retirement. The model worked when staff turnover was low and life expectancy was shorter. Yet, it offered no investment growth, no choice and little protection if […]
Venture capital funds in DIFC
The rising tide of home-grown fintechs, green-hydrogen manufacturers and deep-tech labs across the Gulf has shifted regional capital toward venture portfolios that absorb higher risk in pursuit of outsized gains. Dubai International Financial Centre, already the Middle-East hub for hedge and private credit strategies, now leads the regional charge into seed and Series A terrain. […]
All details about DIFC exempt funds
Dubai International Financial Centre has grown into the Middle East’s principal domicile for private funds, yet not every strategy, nor every investor, requires the full regulatory weight that applies to retail products. Enter the exempt fund, a structure purpose-built for professional clients willing to commit at least fifty thousand United States dollars and knowledgeable enough […]
Managing EU funds with DIFC managers
The past ten years have turned Dubai International Financial Centre from a regional hub into a springboard for truly global capital, yet many Gulf managers still look to Europe when they need the reach that only a UCITS or an AIFMD passport can deliver. Thanks to a network of regulatory memoranda of understanding, and to […]
DIFC qualified investor funds
Dubai International Financial Centre is no longer an experiment on the Gulf trade routes, it is a mature common-law jurisdiction that shelters more than one hundred billion US dollars in hedge, private-credit and real-estate vehicles. For many managers the most practical entry point into this ecosystem is the qualified investor fund, often labelled QIF. By […]
DIFC investment funds service providers
Dubai International Financial Centre has evolved into the Middle East’s primary domicile for hedge, private credit and real-estate vehicles. While a common-law court and a zero-tax guarantee until at least 2054 attract promoters, a fund cannot actually trade, value assets or distribute statements without a reliable network behind it. Each node in that network, from […]
DIFC open and closed-ended investment funds
Dubai International Financial Centre is no longer an experimental outpost, it is a mature common-law zone that hosts hedge funds, venture pools and sukuk portfolios managing well over one hundred billion United States dollars. A fund set up in the centre owns three durable advantages: it pays no corporate or withholding tax until at least […]
Documents required for funds in DIFC
Dubai International Financial Centre has evolved into the Gulf’s pre-eminent fund-domicile, marrying English common law with first-class infrastructure and half a century of guaranteed zero tax on fund income and gains. Yet enthusiasm alone will not carry a manager through the Dubai Financial Services Authority’s gate. The regulator expects a meticulous dossier that shows investors, […]
