CoinMENA FZE secures VASP License for VA broker-dealer providers in Dubai

• Following the VASP license, CoinMENA FZE can now function operations and providers in and from the Emirate.
• CoinMENA focuses on decreasing fiat-to-crypto transaction prices.
• CoinMENA FZE has joined the rising checklist of Digital Asset Service Suppliers actively contributing to Dubai’s evolving crypto ecosystem.

CoinMENA FZE, a subsidiary of CoinMENA B.S.C (c), has secured a Digital Asset Service Supplier (VASP) license for Digital Asset Dealer-Seller providers from Dubai’s Digital Property Regulatory Authority (VARA).

This growth positions CoinMENA FZE to broaden its operations in Dubai, providing a variety of providers to purchasers within the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

CoinMENA’s Dubai debut

In a joint assertion, CoinMENA’s co-founders, Dina Sam’an and Talal Tabbaa, highlighted the essential function of regulatory readability supplied by VARA in positioning Dubai as a world hub for crypto and digital asset monetary providers. The licensing from VARA permits CoinMENA FZE to function and supply providers from its Dubai Head Workplace, using native banking providers for seamless transactions.

The co-founders emphasised the strategic significance of constructing sturdy relationships with native regulators, citing this as a precedence because the inception of CoinMENA. With the VASP license, CoinMENA FZE goals to raised serve each institutional and retail customers in Dubai whereas concurrently decreasing fiat-to-crypto transaction prices.

Dubai’s crypto innovation hub

Dubai, on the forefront of crypto progress and innovation, has been actively launching initiatives to foster the adoption of digital belongings within the area. CoinMENA FZE, now armed with the VARA license, stands poised to contribute to Dubai’s imaginative and prescient as a world crypto hub. Collaborating with VARA, the corporate goals to assist the borderless financial system and additional combine digital belongings into the monetary panorama.

CoinMENA B.S.C (c), headquartered in Bahrain, holds a category-3 crypto asset service supplier license from the Central Financial institution of Bahrain (CBB). The corporate seeks to empower buyers within the MENA area by offering a safe and accessible platform for collaborating within the digital financial system.

This growth follows Dubai’s dedication to creating a sophisticated authorized framework, with VARA enjoying a central function in regulating and overseeing Digital Property and Actions throughout the Emirate, excluding the Dubai Worldwide Monetary Centre. 

A few of the different crypto entities which have acquired regulatory clearance from the VARA embody OKX, which acquired its license in July 2022 and GC Change FZE (GCEX) which was licensed in November 2023.