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The world's top financial centres run on one shared design principle. Singapore did it through MAS in 1971. India applied the same principle through IFSCA in GIFT City in 2020. One regulator. One rulebook. One approval process. Swipe through to see how India built its own version of it. Note: This content is for general educational purposes regarding India's IFSCA regulatory framework and does not constitute investment, legal, or regulatory advice. It does not describe Shipfinex's own regulatory status. Disclaimer: Shipfinex operates under VARA In-Principle Approval. MATs are asset-backed virtual assets; values may decline materially. Not investment advice. #Shipfinex #IFSCA #GIFTCity #MaritimeFinance #FinancialRegulation #IndiaFinance #GlobalFinance #Tokenization
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IFSCA
RUNS on THE SAME PRINCIPLE
THAT MADE SINGAPORE’S MAS
A GLOBAL BENCHMARK
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ONE DESIGN CHOICE
The world's leading financial centres consolidate regulatory power
into a single authority instead of splitting it across several.
Singapore built that in 1971.
India built its own version in 2020.
MAS IFSCA
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THE MODEL
The Monetary Authority of Singapore
Established in 1971.
MAS consolidated Singapore's currency, banking, and financial
regulatory functions into a single institution, a structure most
countries split across several separate bodies.
Currency
Banking
Regulation
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Source: Monetary Authority of Singapore Act, 1970; MAS.
THE CONSOLIDATION
India built its own version of that fusion in 2020.
The International Financial Services Centres Authority was
Established on April 27, 2020, under the IFSCA Act, 2019.
consolidatingthe regulatory powers:
The Reserve Bank of India
The Securities and Exchange
Board of India
The Insurance Regulatory and
Development Authority of India
The Pension Fund Regulatory
and Development Authority
Scope: All financial activity inside
India's International Financial Services
Centres.
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Source: IFSCA Act, 2019; Government of India.
THE STAKE
For a business raising capital or structuring financing across
jurisdictions, that is the difference between one approval desk
and four. One framework, one application, one authority.
One regulator. One rulebook. One approval process.
Source: IFSCA Act, 2019 (consolidation of RBI, SEBI, IRDAI, PFRDA functions under one 5/7
authority for IFSC-based financial activity).
SINGAPORE
Consolidated currency, banking, and financial
regulation into one authority in 1971.
INDIA
Built IFSCA to apply the same principle inside
GIFT City in 2020.
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