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CBUAE Acceptance of Public Subscription

Central Bank of the UAE — Acceptance of Public Subscription (C 468/1987),
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Central Bank of the UAE — Acceptance of Public Subscription (C 468/1987) is one of the rulebooks issued by the Central Bank of the UAE. For compliance officers, legal teams, and advisors working under this regime, finding the right article quickly matters. Lexara indexes the full text of CBUAE Acceptance of Public Subscription 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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4 articles in 2 chapters, each with a plain-English summary by Arakan. The full text of every article is in the Laws Browser.

CBUAE Acceptance of Public Subscription

3 articles
  1. Clause 1

    Banks must submit a foreign government's official approval for a company to offer shares abroad, translated into Arabic and authenticated if not in Arabic or English, for foreign companies' public subscriptions.

  2. Clause 2

    Banks must report to the Central Bank the total shares allocated to UAE subscribers versus total shares applied for, once allocation procedures are finalised.

  3. Clause 3

    Applications and required documents seeking Central Bank approval for a public subscription issue must be submitted at least two weeks before the issue opens to the public.

Clause 1 - Foreign Company Approval / Clause 2 - Allocation Reporting

1 article
  1. Clause 1 / Clause 2-retRecord Retention — Foreign regulatory approval documents and share allocation reports

    Establishes record retention for foreign regulatory approval documents and share allocation reports for public subscriptions; period not specified and defers to general Central Bank recordkeeping requirements.

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Central Bank of the UAE — Acceptance of Public Subscription (C 468/1987) is issued by the Central Bank of the UAE. It has 4 articles across 2 chapters.

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It is organised into: CBUAE Acceptance of Public Subscription; Clause 1 - Foreign Company Approval / Clause 2 - Allocation Reporting.

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