United Arab Emirates
Your obligations in the UAE, and what covers them
Each duty below has a corresponding capability in the platform, and an evidence trail behind it.
Compliance
Core obligations
- Customer due diligence
- Identify and verify every customer and beneficial owner before the relationship begins. Document capture, identity extraction and screening happen in one pass, and the resulting file is the evidence.
- Enhanced due diligence
- Higher-risk relationships, PEPs, high-risk jurisdictions, complex ownership, escalate automatically into an EDD workflow that requires documented senior approval before proceeding.
- Sanctions and PEP screening
- Screen customers, beneficial owners and counterparties against consolidated designations at onboarding and continuously thereafter, with Arabic-aware matching and reviewer sign-off on every hit.
- Ongoing monitoring
- Relationships are kept under review rather than checked once. List changes trigger rescreening, and risk ratings update as the underlying factors move.
- Record keeping
- Screening results, risk rationale, reviewer decisions and document copies are retained for five years by default, exportable at any time as a point-in-time audit pack.
- Suspicious transaction reporting
- Reports are generated with their supporting evidence attached and exported in the format your regulator expects, including goAML-compatible output where the FIU uses it.
UAE portal
Supervisors and frameworks
- CBUAE, Central Bank of the UAE
- Supervises banks, exchange houses, finance companies and insurance.
- UAE FIU, UAE Financial Intelligence Unit
- Receives suspicious transaction and activity reports through goAML.
- MoEc, Ministry of Economy
- Supervises DNFBPs, real estate, precious metals, auditors and corporate service providers.
- SCA, Securities and Commodities Authority
- Supervises capital markets, brokerages and virtual asset activity.
- DFSA / FSRA, DIFC and ADGM financial regulators
- Independent AML regimes for firms licensed in the financial free zones.
Accepted documents
- Emirates ID (front and back)
- Passport and residence visa
- Trade licence
- Establishment card
- Memorandum of association
- Board or shareholder resolutions
Enquiries
Talk to someone who knows UAE
Tell us how you screen today and what UAE expects of you. You will get a straight answer from a person, usually within one business day.
- A walkthrough against your own obligations, not a generic demo
- Pricing and volumes worked out for your book
- Answers in Arabic or English, whichever you prefer
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