Tag: UAE

Dubai-based UAE’s financial watchdog (NAMLCFTC) has adopted a regulatory framework for virtual assets. Regulators seek coordination among public and private sectors to combat money laundering and terror financing. As Gulf News reported, the UAE’s National Committee for Combatting Money-Laundering and Financing of Terrorism and Illegal Organisations (NAMLCFTC) has adopted a regulatory framework for virtual assets…

The first virtual assets trading platform that is fully compliant with the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) virtual asset policy framework announced to be launched, as a result of the Emirates Blockchain Strategy launched in the UAE in 2018, which aims to transform 50% of government transactions into the blockchain platform by the end of…

SFM Corporate Services, a Dubai-based corporate and trust service provider, has announced the acceptance of cryptocurrency as payment for business formation corporate services. The company enables secure and seamless business payments in leading cryptocurrencies for investors and entrepreneurs to establish a company online in a few minutes in 25 jurisdictions worldwide. “Today, cryptocurrency is capturing…

Stephen Stonberg, CEO of Bittrex Global, praised the efforts of the UAE authorities to poise a crypto-friendly positioning of the region. Helped by the region’s status as a tax haven, Dubai is poised to benefit from the growing cryptocurrency market in the Middle East, he said in an interview with Bloomberg. Stephen Stonberg, Bittrex CEO…

The first Bitcoin fund in the Middle East was launched in Dubai this summer, when Canada’s largest digital asset investment fund, 3iQ, placed its public ETF in the largest Middle Eastern financial market. Investors can now transfer shares from the Toronto Stock Exchange to Nasdaq Dubai and vice versa, as well as buy them directly…

The next wave of crypto adoption in the Middle East is likely to come from citizens in unstable countries facing crucial inflation like Iran and Lebanon. While some countries continue to restrict crypto trading and mining, digital transformation in the Middle East has proceeded at a rapid pace. Nimrod Lehavi, the founder of Simplex and…