Exchange services in United Arab Emirates: authorised firms, counted

Name: Issafu Crypto Register Index: Exchange services in United Arab Emirates
Creator: Issafu
Published: 2026-09-08
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The regulator's register names 15 firms in this jurisdiction whose authorisation covers Exchange services.

The count is of published entries and nothing else; the jurisdiction's whole register sits one level up.

This is a small set: with fewer than 30 authorised firms, a count at this level says little about a market, so read it beside the United Arab Emirates register rather than on its own.

authorised firms: 15
firms available: 15

How this compares with United Arab Emirates as a whole

Exchange services15
United Arab Emirates56

How this compares with United Arab Emirates as a whole

United Arab Emirates overall: 56 firms on the register, 56 counted here. Exchange services is held by fewer firms than the jurisdiction's average service.

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Authorised crypto-asset firms · Exchange services in United Arab Emirates · the registers as published on 8 September 2026

register entries	15

Source: Issafu Crypto Register Index: Exchange services in United Arab Emirates

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Source: ESMA interim MiCA register - crypto-asset service providers (CASPS.csv) (337), retrieved 2026-09-08; NYDFS virtual currency businesses - BitLicense and limited purpose trust charter holders (39), retrieved 2026-09-08; VARA public register - licensed Virtual Asset Service Providers (Dubai) (56), retrieved 2026-09-08; Bermuda Monetary Authority - Digital Assets Business Act licensees (52), retrieved 2026-09-08; FINMA authorised institutions - persons under Article 1b of the Banking Act (the Swiss FinTech licence) (7), retrieved 2026-09-08

Methodology: Counts are of register entries exactly as each regulator published them on the retrieval date shown beside that register's name. recordCount for a jurisdiction is the HOME-authorised set - the firms that jurisdiction's own authority authorised - and never the passported union: under MiCA nearly every firm passports everywhere, so the home set is what differs from page to page. availableCount adds firms passported in, where the register records passporting; the single-regime registers (New York, Dubai, Bermuda, Switzerland) record none, so for those jurisdictions the two counts are equal. A scope counts home-authorised firms notified for that service under that jurisdiction's own regime; a service phrase no register vocabulary names is refused at projection rather than dropped, so no authorisation is silently missing from a page. Nothing here is computed by us: every figure is a count of published rows.

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