Description
If you think UAE AML compliance is still a "tick-box" exercise of collecting passports and filing annual reports, you are misjudging the 2026 regulatory landscape. Following recent legislative overhauls and heightened international scrutiny, supervisors from the Central Bank, DFSA, FSRA and VARA have radically shifted their focus. They are no longer checking if you have a policy; they are testing how that policy behaves under stress.