From Assessment to Action: What UAE Compliance Officers Need to Know About the 2025 NRA

Description

This webinar will provide financial services compliance professionals in the UAE with a practical understanding of the 2025 National Risk Assessment (NRA) and its direct impact on regulatory obligations. Participants will explore the key financial crime threats, emerging vulnerabilities, and sector-specific risks outlined in the NRA. We will discuss how the findings shape supervisory expectations and influence risk management priorities across banking, exchange houses, VASPs, and hawala providers. Attendees will gain insights into implementing a risk-based approach, enhancing resilience, and aligning compliance frameworks with the UAE's evolving AML/CFT strategy for 2024–2027.

 

Content 

  • Overview of the UAE's 2025 NRA: Key findings and implications

  • Evolving financial crime threats: Fraud, drug trafficking, TBML, and beyond

  • Managing new sector vulnerabilities: Virtual assets, real estate, and legal entities

  • Supervisory expectations: Applying a risk-based approach in compliance frameworks

  • Strengthening resilience: Preparing for enhanced enforcement and public-private cooperation

 

Presenter

Pijush Das

Partner – Governance, Risk & Compliance and Academy at Crowe UAE
Das 

A Senior Banker with strong business development and Communication skills ; a capacity for strategic thinking; significant experience in Treasury, Risk and Compliance, gained in domestic and international markets; a strong advocate of customer focus and creation of shareholder value; Inspirational and Visionary, an Innovative and Integrative thinker with the strong belief that winning businesses are the natural outcome of entrepreneurial and technological foresight.