The Dubai Financial Services Authority hosted its 2025 Annual Outreach session in the Dubai International Financial Centre, convening more than 500 senior executives and compliance, legal and money laundering reporting officers to discuss supervision priorities and regulatory expectations as the Centre expands. The DIFC now regulates more than 1,000 entities, with the banking sector alone reporting around USD 240 billion in assets. The session provided updates across the DFSA’s five supervision focus areas, Prudential, Conduct of Business, Financial Crime Conduct, Innovation and Technology Risk, and Audit and Infrastructure, alongside enforcement, policy, authorisation and markets, covering topics from auditor appointment protocols and financial crime controls to cyber security measures and FinTech developments. Drawing on thematic reviews published during the year, the DFSA reinforced that firms should plan compliance resourcing alongside growth, strengthen board-level challenge and documentation of growth-related risks, implement comprehensive policies and conflicts management for fund management self-custody arrangements, and improve artificial intelligence governance as generative AI usage has nearly tripled over the past year while some firms still lack effective oversight mechanisms and are seeking clearer supervisory expectations.

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