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FSRA Guidance: Virtual Asset Activities in ADGM

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FSRA Guidance - Regulation of Virtual Asset Activities in ADGM (VER07.100625, June 2025; supervisory guidance, not statute; partial extract: paras 1-41 and 110-136) is one of the rulebooks issued by the Financial Services Regulatory Authority — ADGM. For compliance officers, legal teams, and advisors working under this regime, finding the right article quickly matters. Lexara indexes the full text of FSRA Guidance: Virtual Asset Activities in ADGM and makes it searchable two ways: full-text and keyword search for rapid lookup, and AI Explorer for natural-language questions answered with citations to the exact article.

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Virtual Asset Activities Guidance

12 articles

  1. Guidance para 37 (PRU Chapter 3)Capital - Custody of Virtual Assets

  2. Guidance para 110 (COBS 14, 17.8.4)Client Money

  3. Guidance para 111Substance

  4. Guidance para 129Insurance

  5. Guidance para 136 (MIR 2.6-2.8)MTF operational systems and client access

  6. Guidance paras 2, 16-19Scope and VA Regulated Activities

  7. Guidance paras 25-36 (COBS 17.2)Accepted Virtual Assets

  8. Guidance paras 38-41 (COBS 17.3; MIR 3.2)Capital - MTF using Virtual Assets

  9. Guidance paras 112-115Virtual Asset brokers and dealers

  10. Guidance paras 124-125Transactions with unknown counterparties

  11. Guidance paras 126-128Margin trading

  12. Guidance paras 130-135MTF substance and scope

What FSRA Guidance: Virtual Asset Activities in ADGM covers

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Compliance — 3 articles

Finance — 2 articles

Technology / Compliance — 2 articles

Finance / Compliance — 1 article

Management — 1 article

Trading / Compliance — 1 article

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FSRA Guidance: Virtual Asset Activities in ADGM spans the following regulatory topics, as tagged by Lexara.

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virtual assets

digital assets

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What is FSRA Guidance - Regulation of Virtual Asset Activities in ADGM (VER07.100625, June 2025; supervisory guidance, not statute; partial extract: paras 1-41 and 110-136)?

FSRA Guidance - Regulation of Virtual Asset Activities in ADGM (VER07.100625, June 2025; supervisory guidance, not statute; partial extract: paras 1-41 and 110-136) is issued by the Financial Services Regulatory Authority — ADGM and has applied since 10 June 2025. It has 12 articles across 1 chapters.

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