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Your compliance manager

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Governance and board compliance

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Clients' regulatory compliance

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Clients' FTA compliance

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Planning your UAE setup

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Sanctions and PEP screening

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UAE rulebook library

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Compliance, explained

How compliance management works for UAE regulated firms and designated businesses: knowing your rules, assessing risk, policies and people, monitoring and testing, fixing what fails, reporting and keeping up with change.

For: Owners, compliance officers and finance leads at UAE regulated firms (DFSA, FSRA, VARA, Central Bank) and designated firms (real estate, gold, accountants, company formation).

9 videos, about two minutes each. Watch in order; each one starts the next.

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In this series

  1. 1.What is compliance management?

    2 min

  2. 2.Know your rules

    2 min

  3. 3.Assess your risk

    2 min

  4. 4.Policies and people

    2 min

  5. 5.The monitoring programme

    1 min

  6. 6.When something fails

    2 min

  7. 7.Anti-money laundering, day to day

    2 min

  8. 8.Reporting and keeping up with change

    1 min

  9. 9.Rules, obligations, focus areas and controls

    2 min