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Coverage: Gulf Cooperation Council

Built for the Gulf: the regulators, the registers and the national lists.

18 named sources across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman, with Arabic name handling, on top of the 13 global feeds.

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Sanctions and regulator coverage across the Gulf

Across the Gulf, AdverseMe queries 18 regulator and registry sources: DFSA, ADGM and DIFC in the UAE, the SCA and the Central Bank onshore, SAMA and the CMA in Saudi Arabia, the QFCRA in Qatar, the Central Bank of Bahrain and the CMA in Oman. Arabic names are transliterated for matching, and 5 national terror lists are parsed daily.

Gulf sources
18
Countries
UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman
National lists
5, parsed daily
Global feeds
13, twice a day

By regulator

DFSA, ADGM, DIFC, SCA, CBUAE and SAMA as they appear in the catalogue

DFSA

ADGM

DIFC

SCA

CBUAE

SAMA

National lists

5 terror lists parsed from the publishers' files

Fetched daily at 04:30 UTC, stored as snapshots, parsed and diffed. Excel lists use a per-list parser; PDF lists go through text extraction and a validation gate that drops any name not present in the source document.

Catalogue

18 Gulf and Middle East sources by country

UAE 9

  • DFSA/ADGM Enforcement (UAE)

    Dubai Financial Services Authority and Abu Dhabi Global Market enforcement

    Tier 3 active paid
    Middle East Regulators UAE people and companies

  • SCA Enforcement (UAE)

    UAE Securities and Commodities Authority enforcement actions

    Tier 3 active paid
    Middle East Regulators UAE people and companies

  • DFSA/ADGM Register (UAE)

    UAE financial services registry

    Tier 3 active paid
    Middle East Registries UAE companies

  • UAE Executive Office, Targeted Financial Sanctions List

    The mandatory UAE Local Terrorist List + UN Consolidated mirror published by the UAE Executive Office for Control & Non-Proliferation. Compliance-critical for any UAE-regulated entity.

    Tier 1 active paid
    Sanctions Lists UAE people and companies

  • CBUAE Administrative & Financial Sanctions

    Central Bank UAE published enforcement actions against licensed financial institutions (administrative + financial sanctions).

    Tier 1 active paid
    Middle East Regulators UAE people and companies

  • UAE Ministry of Economy, TFS Portal (DNFBP)

    Targeted financial sanctions for designated non-financial businesses (real estate, dealers in precious metals, etc.) outside the CBUAE perimeter.

    Tier 2 active paid
    Middle East Regulators UAE people and companies

  • DIFC Public Register (UAE)

    Dubai International Financial Centre, every DIFC entity + Registrar notices, strike-offs, and enforcement decisions. Most regional corporate-vehicle risk routes through DIFC.

    Tier 2 active paid
    Middle East Registries UAE companies

  • ADGM Public Register (UAE)

    Abu Dhabi Global Market entity register + FSRA enforcement. Coverage for AD-domiciled funds and SPVs.

    Tier 2 active paid
    Middle East Registries UAE companies

  • DFSA Public Register (DIFC), licensed individuals + firms

    DFSA positive-list of licensed individuals + firms + enforcement decisions. Complements the existing dfsa_news (which only covers press releases).

    Tier 2 active paid
    Middle East Registries UAE people and companies

Saudi Arabia 2

  • Saudi CMA Enforcement Decisions

    Capital Market Authority of Saudi Arabia, disqualifications and fines on capital-markets participants.

    Tier 3 active paid
    Middle East Regulators Saudi Arabia people and companies

  • SAMA Notices (Saudi Arabia)

    Saudi Central Bank licensed-FI directory + enforcement notices.

    Tier 3 active paid
    Middle East Regulators Saudi Arabia people and companies

Qatar 2

  • QFCRA Enforcement (Qatar)

    Qatar Financial Centre Regulatory Authority enforcement and warnings

    Tier 3 active paid
    Middle East Regulators Qatar people and companies

  • QFCRA Register (Qatar)

    Qatar Financial Centre authorised firms

    Tier 3 active paid
    Middle East Registries Qatar companies

Bahrain 2

  • CBB Enforcement (Bahrain)

    Central Bank of Bahrain enforcement actions and sanctions

    Tier 3 active paid
    Middle East Regulators Bahrain people and companies

  • CBB Register (Bahrain)

    Central Bank of Bahrain licensed institutions

    Tier 3 active paid
    Middle East Registries Bahrain companies

Oman 2

  • CMA Enforcement (Oman)

    Oman Capital Market Authority enforcement actions

    Tier 3 active paid
    Middle East Regulators Oman people and companies

  • CMA Register (Oman)

    Oman Capital Market Authority licensed entities

    Tier 3 active paid
    Middle East Registries Oman companies

Wider Middle East 1

  • Egypt FRA Enforcement

    Financial Regulatory Authority Egypt, non-bank FI enforcement and warnings.

    Tier 3 active paid
    Middle East Regulators Egypt people and companies

Frequently asked questions

Which UAE regulators are covered?

The DFSA and ADGM enforcement notices and registers, the DIFC public register with registrar notices and strike-offs, the ADGM public register with FSRA enforcement, the DFSA public register of licensed firms and individuals, SCA enforcement actions, the Central Bank's administrative and financial sanctions, and the Ministry of Economy's targeted financial sanctions portal for DNFBPs.

What about Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman?

Saudi CMA enforcement decisions and SAMA notices with the licensed institution directory; QFCRA enforcement and register in Qatar; Central Bank of Bahrain enforcement and register; Oman CMA enforcement and register. Each is a curated search over the regulator's own site and is listed on this page.

How are Arabic names handled?

Names are transliterated to ASCII and compared on a consonant skeleton as well as by fuzzy match, so Arabic script, romanised variants and the al- and el- article forms resolve to the same candidate. The UAE and Lebanon lists are parsed with their Arabic fields intact.

Are the Gulf sources official records?

The registers and enforcement pages are the regulators' own publications, queried as curated search, so they carry tier 2 or tier 3 weight in identity matching. The national terror lists are parsed directly from the publishers' files and carry list-level weight.

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