In order to strengthen the economic ties with India, a United Arab Emirates (UAE) business delegation will be visiting Mumbai on August 24, 2015, for four days to highlight DIFC’s status as an internationally recognized platform that is stimulating trade and investment in the region’s emerging economies. This move will help to open up new areas of potential collaboration between the financial capitals of Dubai and Mumbai. UAE has recently during Indian Prime Minister's visit to the country had agreed to increase their investment in India to $75 billion (about Rs 5 lakh crore) through the establishment of UAE-India Infrastructure Investment Fund.
Dubai International Financial Centre’s (DIFC) Deputy Chief Executive Officer has said that the continued evaluation of DIFC is opening the door to new markets and fresh opportunities for the Indian economy and its burgeoning private sector and the scale of Dubai growth strategy shows that the opportunities for India are vast. DIFC representatives will promote to Indian investors and the wider Indian financial sector the stability, efficiency and world-class regulation offered by an advanced business ecosystem located at the heart of the Middle East, Africa and South Asia (MEASA) region, a vast economic area with an estimated combined GDP of $7.9 trillion. DIFC is aimed to increase its assets under management to $250 billion from current $10.4 billion, host 1,000 financial services firms and grow its balance sheet from $65 billion to $400 billion.
In the financial year 2014-15, bilateral trade between India and UAE crossed $59 billion. Indian exports to the UAE, its top export destination, are valued at $33 billion. UAE-based NRIs account for $15 billion in annual remittances, own more than 40,000 UAE companies and hold investments worth an estimated $55 billion, including as much as $18 billion in real estate.
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