UAE: two financial centres, two rulebooks, one federal law

Ask where a UAE firm's AML obligations come from and you will get three correct answers, depending on who you ask. That is not confusion — it is the structure.

Start with a compliance health check.

A working session with your compliance team, then a walkthrough against your own risk appetite: the lifecycle end to end, scoring weights set to your policy, and a review of the audit trail the system produces.