REGULATORS · UNITED ARAB EMIRATES · ONSHORE & FREE ZONE
UAE compliance software for onshore and free-zone entities.
Central Bank of the UAE, DIFC and ADGM obligations mapped to one control set, evidenced from your systems and scoped per licensed entity.
What the UAE regulators require
The UAE is three supervisors rather than one: the Central Bank of the UAE onshore, the DFSA inside the DIFC and the FSRA inside ADGM, each licensing its own entities under its own rulebook.
A group that operates onshore and in a free zone therefore holds several licences and answers to each supervisor separately — which is why a single UAE scope is not a simplification, it is an error.
Thiqa keeps a scope per licensed entity, routes onshore obligations only to CBUAE-licensed entities, evidences the controls genuinely shared across all of them once, and records a named approver on every filing.
UAE FAQ
- Can one scope cover onshore, DIFC and ADGM?
- No, and it should not. CBUAE, the DFSA and the FSRA license separately, so each entity keeps its own scope; only the controls genuinely shared across them are evidenced once.
- Who signs a UAE filing?
- A named approver, recorded against the pack before it files — the same approval step every other regulator on your control set goes through.