ADGM Regulated Entities

If your organization operates across mainland UAE and a financial free zone, you are not dealing with one compliance environment. Mainland entities are supervised by federal regulators (for example, the Central Bank for banking and the SCA for capital markets). DIFC firms are supervised by the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) and ADGM firms by the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA).

In regulated UAE markets, most organisations do not fail because they lack policies. They fail because policies do not translate into consistent execution, and when scrutiny arrives, the business cannot prove what happened, who approved it, and whether controls operated as designed.