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Cross-border virtual-asset transfers in AE are governed principally through the FATF Travel Rule as codified in the UAE Virtual Assets Travel Rule (Cabinet Resolution No. (134) of 2025) and VARA's Compliance and Risk Management Rulebook, which requires travel-rule compliance and sanctions screening for VASP transactions. A specific outbound-restriction or reporting-threshold regime distinct from the travel rule was not independently confirmed in this pass.
Beyond the Travel Rule itself, however, no numeric cross-border reporting threshold or outbound-transfer restriction specific to virtual assets has been confirmed against a primary source in this research pass. This is recorded as an open sourcing gap: the absence of a confirmed numeric threshold does not necessarily mean no such threshold exists, only that one has not yet been located and verified against primary regulatory text. Readers should treat the cross-border regime as confirmed with respect to travel-rule and sanctions-screening obligations, but unconfirmed with respect to any additional quantitative reporting or outbound-restriction rule.
Outlook
The Travel Rule obligation under Cabinet Resolution No. (134) of 2025 is well established and unlikely to change materially in the near term. The open question for this module is whether a distinct numeric reporting threshold or outbound-restriction regime exists beyond the Travel Rule -- this remains an active sourcing gap to close against primary regulatory text in future cycles, rather than a settled absence of such a rule.
no periodic updates on record for this sub-brief
Sources and findings (2)
- T1 · VARAUAE Cabinet / VARA — The UAE Virtual Assets Travel Rule, codified under Cabinet Resolution No. (134) of 2025, forms part of VARA's Federal AML/CFT Laws framework governing cross-border virtual asset transfers.retrieved M5bindingin forcenew
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