Individuals and entities that are prohibited or restricted from participating in financial services within the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC).
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Individuals and entities that are prohibited or restricted from participating in financial services within the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC).
The individuals and entities listed here are prohibited or restricted from performing any function in connection with financial services in or from the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC). The DFSA maintains this list as part of its public register under the Regulatory Law 2004. Under the Rule 9.8.3 of the Markets Rules module of the DFSA Rulebook, Reporting Entities are required to disclose to the Market information through a DFSA approved Regulatory Announcement.
Prohibitions and restrictions are imposed following enforcement action by the DFSA for misconduct such as failing to act with integrity, misleading or deceiving investors, misappropriating client funds, submitting false or misleading regulatory returns, carrying out unauthorised financial services, or breaching anti-money laundering requirements.
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| Publisher: | Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) · United Arab Emirates The DFSA is the independent regulator of financial services conducted in or from the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), a purpose-built financial free zone in Dubai, UAE. The DFSA’s regulatory mandate includes asset management, banking and credit services, dealing in investments, investment advice, collective investment funds, custody and trust services, Islamic finance, insurance, financial technology, crypto and investment tokens, money services, capital markets, crowdfunding, an international equities exchange, and an international commodities derivatives exchange. In addition to regulating financial and ancillary services (such as auditors) in the DIFC, the DFSA is responsible for supervising and enforcing anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorist financing (CTF) requirements applicable in the DIFC to its regulated community. | ||||||
| Collections: | in OpenSanctions Default · Regulatory Watchlists · Warrants and Criminal Entities | ||||||
| Information: | www.dfsa.ae | ||||||
| Source data: | www.dfsa.ae · HTML | ||||||
| Tags: | sector.financial | ||||||
| Coverage: | added · frequency: daily | ||||||
| Last processed: | 2026-04-23 00:24:01 · v. 20260423002401-ogz | ||||||
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Downloads contain the full set of entities contained in this dataset. You can fetch a simplified tabular form, or detailed, structured data in JSON format. Updated files will be provided once a day at the same location.
| File name | Export type | Size | |
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entities.ftm.json | FollowTheMoney entities | 27.2 KB | |
names.txt | Target names text file | 503 B | |
senzing.json | Senzing entity format | 12.44 KB | |
targets.nested.json | Targets as nested JSON | 23.62 KB | |
targets.simple.csv | Targets as simplified CSV | 5.9 KB |
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The following targeted entities have been added to this data source most recently:
| Added | Name | Type | Countries |
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| Nrupaditya Singhdeo | Person | ||
| Christopher Steer | Person | ||
| Julian Rifat | Person | ||
| Stuart Coles | Person | ||
| Anna Waterhouse | Person | ||
| Arif Masood Naqvi | Person | ||
| Arnab Mukherjee | Person | ||
| Odhaid Al Mansouri | Person | ||
| Ricardo Espirito Santo Silva Salgado | Person | ||
| Noyan Ayhan | Person | ||
| Mubashir Ahmed Sheikh | Person | ||
| Ashish Bhandari | Person | ||
| Ashish Brughu Dave | Person | ||
| Mustafa Ahmed Talaat Abdel-Wadood | Person | ||
| Christian Franz Thurner | Person |
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