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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.
Every UAE company goes through the same stages. Start at the one you're at.
Compare free zones and mainland, the activities each licence allows and what it costs, before you commit.
Scout · Planning your UAE setup
Your obligations worked out from your licence and activities, deadlines tracked, evidence and reports kept.
Comply · Your compliance manager
Check people and companies against sanctions, PEP and adverse-media sources, and keep them on watchlists.
Verify · Sanctions, PEP and adverse-media screening
Policies, board agendas, minutes, quorum, committees and statutory records in one place.
Govern · Governance and board compliance
Company records stored for the periods UAE law requires, each with a fingerprint and an audit trail.
Vault · Statutory records storage
At every stage
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 sanctions, PEP and adverse-media sources, then keep watching them.
Verify · Sanctions, PEP and adverse-media 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
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