Dubai’s VARA Increases Leverage Controls on Crypto Margin Trading in Trading Rulebook Update

Dubai’s crypto regulator Virtual Asset Regulatory Authority (VARA) has up to date its rulebook for digital asset buying and selling.

The emirati regulator has launched better leverage controls and collateralization necessities via provisions in its Broker-Deal and Exchange Rulebooks. This will assist VARA’s guidelines to align with international threat requirements, the regulator stated in an emailed announcement on Monday.

VARA has additionally launched sections of its rulebook to correctly oversee areas of the crypto business that have been beforehand evenly regulated, equivalent to broker-dealers and wallets.

The guidelines beforehand laid out by VARA have helped set up town as a crypto hub, successful reward from crypto corporations for being moderately clear in their necessities to function there. Major exchanges equivalent to Binance, Crypto.com and OKX have all received approvals below VARA.

VARA is now taking these guidelines and upgrading them to replicate a extra mature framework that it says incorporates real-world licensing expertise and worldwide finest practices.

“These rulebook updates reinforce the foundations of a responsible, scalable ecosystem,” said Ruben Bombardi, General Counsel and Head of Regulatory Enablement at VARA, said in an emailed comment shared with CoinDesk.

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