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Compliance Infrastructure for Banking in Dubai

Serving Dubai — delivered through our UAE & Gulf operations

Compliance bolted on after the fact costs 3x what compliance built in from the start costs. By the time the audit firm finds the gap, the architecture is already locked.

Local Context

The Dubai Market

Dubai's financial services market operates across three distinct regulatory zones: onshore UAE (CBUAE oversight), DIFC (DFSA oversight, English common law), and ADGM (FSRA oversight, English common law). Banks and fintechs operating across multiple zones need regulatory architecture that satisfies all three simultaneously — data residency requirements, AML/KYC frameworks, and licensing conditions that differ meaningfully across zones.

The CBUAE's open finance framework, DIFC's updated data protection law, and the DFSA's technology governance requirements are creating new infrastructure mandates for Dubai financial institutions. We deploy into Dubai banking and fintech with all three regulatory zones mapped to the architecture — CBUAE, DIFC, and onshore UAE frameworks built in from day one.

Regulatory

Compliance Coverage

SOC 2PCI-DSSGLBABSA/AMLUAE PDPLDIFC

Every system we deploy for Banking in Dubai is SOC 2-compliant from architecture through deployment. SOC 2 and PCI-DSS compliance is enforced automatically at every commit — not assessed after the fact.

Structure

Engagement Scope

Tier I
Surgical Strike
Team: 10–30 engineers
Duration: 8–16 weeks

A focused team deployed against a single Banking platform in Dubai. SOC 2 and PCI-DSS-compliant architecture from day one. Fixed price, fixed output, no discovery phase.

Tier II
Enterprise Program
Team: 40–100 engineers
Duration: 3–9 months

40–100 engineers running parallel workstreams across a Banking transformation in Dubai. Multi-system compliance governance and SOC 2 and PCI-DSS certification maintained across the full program.

Tier III
Total Infrastructure
Team: 100–250+ engineers
Duration: 6–18 months

100–250+ engineers owning the complete technology infrastructure for a Banking organization in Dubai. Full SOC 2 and PCI-DSS compliance across every system, every integration, every deployment.

Compliance Infrastructure for Banking in Dubai.

Our engineers understand banking before they write their first line of code. Delivered through our UAE & Gulf operations.

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