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Short answers on timelines, licences and what it takes to run a team from GIFT City.
Most IFSC licences take about 11 to 20 weeks from first meeting to go-live, depending on the licence, document readiness and regulator responses. A GIC has 180 days after in-principle approval to meet the conditions. A treasury centre must start operations within six months of registration.
Yes. Professional and technology teams serving overseas clients can use the TechFin and Ancillary Services route. Corporate groups can run treasury as a GRCTC. Any company can take offices in GIFT City's domestic area, outside the IFSC.
A GIC provides services to a financial institution group, for example operations, risk or technology for a bank. A GRCTC runs a corporate group's own treasury: cash, funding, FX and risk.
A GIC or TAS unit needs a full-time Principal Officer and Compliance Officer in the IFSC. A treasury centre needs at least five qualified staff, including a Head of Treasury and a Compliance Officer, though IFSCA can relax this for up to a year after start.
No. The 2025 GIC regulations do not allow a GIC to be set up by transferring existing contracts or work from the group's Indian entities.
They work from the GIFT City office. Many live in Ahmedabad or Gandhinagar; see Facilities for evening transport and homes nearby.
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