Dubai’s crypto regulator Digital Asset Regulatory Authority (VARA) has up to date its rulebook for digital asset buying and selling.
The emirati regulator has launched larger leverage controls and collateralization necessities by provisions in its Dealer-Deal and Alternate Rulebooks. This can assist VARA’s guidelines to align with world danger requirements, the regulator stated in an emailed announcement on Monday.
VARA has additionally launched sections of its rulebook to correctly oversee areas of the crypto business that have been beforehand calmly regulated, equivalent to broker-dealers and wallets.
The principles beforehand laid out by VARA have helped set up town as a crypto hub, successful reward from crypto firms for being fairly clear of their necessities to function there. Main exchanges equivalent to Binance, Crypto.com and OKX have all gained approvals beneath VARA.
VARA is now taking these guidelines and upgrading them to mirror a extra mature framework that it says incorporates real-world licensing expertise and worldwide greatest practices.
“These rulebook updates reinforce the foundations of a accountable, scalable ecosystem,” stated Ruben Bombardi, Normal Counsel and Head of Regulatory Enablement at VARA, stated in an emailed remark shared with CoinDesk.
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