The India International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA) issued a chairperson’s message for IOSCO World Investor Week 2025, setting out its investor education and protection programme for GIFT IFSC and confirming plans to publish a “Stewardship Code” and a “Consumer Charter” during the week. The programme, to be delivered with market infrastructure institutions and other market participants, runs in the week starting 6 October 2025 and focuses on “Technology and Digital Finance”, “Artificial Intelligence” and “Fraud and Scam Prevention”. The message highlighted the scale of retail users of regulated services in GIFT IFSC, including over 11,500 retail depositors who are non-resident Indians, persons of Indian origin or foreigners, more than 3,500 investors in alternative investment funds, and over 1.5 million retail investors using global access, alongside around 1,000 entities registered or regulated by IFSCA across financial services. The chairperson also invited stakeholders to propose innovative ideas as part of next-generation reforms for the IFSC.

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