Dubai regulator sets compliance deadline for updated crypto rules

Dubai’s VARA has boosted oversight across multiple virtual asset activities, standardizing key terms and aligning risk management rules to reduce ambiguity and ease compliance for VASPs.

Dubai’s crypto regulator has given licensed digital asset companies until June 19 to comply with its updated activity-based Rulebooks to enhance market integrity and risk oversight. 

On May 19, Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) announced that it had released Version 2.0 of the Rulebooks. 

The regulator said it had strengthened controls around margin trading and token distribution services, harmonised compliance requirements across all licensed activities and given clearer definitions for collateral wallet arrangements. 

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