Sheikh Mohammed updates DIFC's founding law - new version expands free zone's 'strategic objectives'
Dubai: Dubai has updated the laws for the Dubai International Finance Centre, thus expanding the financial hub’s “strategic objectives”. These objectives now also include “advancing sustainable economic growth for Dubai, developing and diversifying the economy and increasing the GDP contribution of the financial services sector, to promote investment into Dubai and to attract regional and international entities to establish themselves in DIFC as their principal place of business”. The updated version thus replaces the Law No. (9) of 2004, which was the founding law of DIFC. It provi...