A practical guide to building a risk-led AML policy that staff can follow, management can oversee, and a supervisor can test. Introduction AML policy requirements in UAE are easiest to meet when a policy reflects the business’s actual customers, services, channels and risks. For DNFBPs, a usable AML/CFT/CPF framework connects risk assessment, customer checks, monitoring, […]
How virtual-asset businesses can connect customer due diligence, blockchain monitoring, Travel Rule controls and governance to the right UAE supervisory perimeter. Introduction Crypto AML compliance in the UAE depends on the activity, customer journey and regulator that governs the VASP. A credible programme connects business risk assessment, customer due diligence, blockchain monitoring, Travel Rule processes, […]
Ask ten UAE compliance officers what the CDD threshold is and most will say AED 55,000. They are right, for some entities, some of the time. They are also describing about a quarter of the picture. The KYC requirements UAE regulators apply in 2026 run on at least four different monetary triggers depending on what […]
If you run a regulated business in the UAE, someone has probably told you that you need an independent AML audit. They were right. What they may not have told you is that the legal basis for it changed at the end of 2025, and that a large share of the guidance still circulating online […]
Commercial gaming stopped being a policy debate in the UAE and became a licensed, supervised industry. For any operator, technology vendor, payment provider or professional services firm touching that industry, GCGRA AML compliance is now the workstream that determines how quickly everything else moves, and AML compliance UAE expectations here are set at bank grade. […]
There is a version of this conversation we have almost every week. A crypto firm has a licence, or is close to one, and someone senior asks whether the AML framework is in good shape. The answer usually is that it was built for a different regulator, or for a bank, or downloaded from somewhere […]
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