Compliance platform for UAE companies and the firms that serve them
Arakan works out which UAE laws and regulators apply to a company, tracks every obligation and deadline, and keeps the evidence — for your own company or for your clients.
Covers
Where do you start?
Each app automates the routine work — reading documents, checking rules, screening, tracking deadlines — and leaves the decisions to you. We're taking more of it to full automation with every release.
This is for
Most firms start here
Onboard your first client · Onboard
Send a client the portal link. Documents, owners and the risk rating come back ready for your CDD report.
Take each client from onboarding to compliant — with its regulators and with the FTA.
KYC and CDD through a client portal: documents, owners, risk rating and the CDD report.
Onboard · Client onboarding (KYC/CDD)
Screen clients and their owners against official sanctions, PEP and warning lists, then keep watching them.
Verify · Sanctions and PEP screening
Each client's regulatory obligations, gaps and deadlines in one portfolio your team works through.
Shield · Clients' regulatory compliance
Clients send invoices and receipts any way they like; they're read, sorted and checked against tax rules before filing.
Ledger · Clients' FTA compliance
At every stage
The product
Comply — Works out what applies to your company from its licence and activities, tracks every obligation and deadline, and keeps the evidence and reports — for owners, compliance managers and MLROs. More
One platform
Each app does one job well. They share your companies, documents and rules, so nothing is entered twice.
For firms serving clients
For setting up
Free, no account needed
Compare free zones, look up activities, and read UAE laws and rulebooks.
Free zones · from Scout
Business activities · from Scout
UAE law · from Lexara
Popular guides
Arakan Lexara Weekly · free
Key developments, what firms are asked to do, and the deadlines coming up. Read the latest
Laws and regulator rulebooks are held article by article in Lexara. Checks name the article they come from.
Each file is fingerprinted when it arrives and keeps its own audit trail, so you can show what you held and when.
Arakan-managed document storage runs in AWS me-central-1 (UAE), or connect your own storage. Security
Your account works across every Arakan app.
Not sure? Start from who you are.