Case study

ADGM: Putting Abu Dhabi on the financial map

Established by United Arab Emirates (UAE) Federal Decree in 2013, Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) is a broad-based international financial centre for local, regional and international institutions. ADGM, which is scheduled to be fully launched by Q4 2015, will centre its activities during the first phase of its development on what it views to be Abu Dhabi’s natural strength of asset management, wealth management and private banking.

Deloitte supported ADGM from the outset, making available over 100 experts from all service lines and a variety of member firms across Europe and the Middle East. ADGM started accepting its first licence applications from non-financial institutions in June 2015 and is scheduled to be in a position to receive licence applications from financial institutions in Q4 2015. We advised ADGM’s leadership in developing the financial centre’s strategy and business case including developing a detailed operating model design for ADGM and its three authorities. In addition, we supported interactions at ambassador level between various countries as we helped build the reputation of ADGM in global financial markets.

ADGM is now well on the way to achieving its ambition of being a leading international financial centre.

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