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The CRO role is expanding from regulatory compliance to strategic influence, with AI reshaping how risk is identified, measured, and governed. This article explores how the mandate is evolving and why governance is the defining challenge for risk leaders.
Contract value is often lost after signature. This article explores how Internal Audit strengthens post-award oversight to protect value, improve cost efficiency, and ensure contracts deliver as intended.
The Federal Tax Authority has issued Corporate Tax Public Clarification CTP010, confirming that Connected Person analysis under Article 36 must focus on substance and actual authority, not job titles alone.
The CRO role is expanding from regulatory compliance to strategic influence, with AI reshaping how risk is identified, measured, and governed. This article explores how the mandate is evolving and why governance is the defining challenge for risk leaders.
Contract value is often lost after signature. This article explores how Internal Audit strengthens post-award oversight to protect value, improve cost efficiency, and ensure contracts deliver as intended.
The Federal Tax Authority has issued Corporate Tax Public Clarification CTP010, confirming that Connected Person analysis under Article 36 must focus on substance and actual authority, not job titles alone.
Digital assets are at the core of the future of finance. One digital asset class that sets itself apart as an island of stability in a sea of volatility is stablecoin. Stablecoins are now increasingly linked to cross-border remittance traffic, to management of corporate treasury operations, and to payments of all types. This article will attempt to explain a number of these developments and highlight the ways that Grant Thornton can help you plan for the future and implement your design.
Set up and run your UAE business with one end-to-end team, from company formation and visas to accounting, payroll and HR advisory.
The UAE has launched a formal R&D Tax Credit regime allowing eligible businesses to claim non‑refundable tax credits on qualifying R&D expenditure, with tiered rates, mandatory project pre‑approval and robust documentation requirements. At Grant Thornton UAE we support businesses on eligibility, applications and wider tax advisory needs.
A modern MRM framework needs more than policy statements. It depends on clear roles, a complete view of the model landscape and a validation process that operates across the entire lifecycle. These pillars create the structure that enables banks to demonstrate control, respond quickly to issues, and meet rising supervisory expectations.
The latest insight in our risk and resilience series outlines how organisations can strengthen contractual readiness and protect their position under UAE law. This series is developed to support business leaders to build confidence, resilience and continuity through disruption.
YOUR BUSINESS IS GROWING. SO ARE WE. Grant Thornton UAE is delighted to welcome ten new Partners, strengthening our leadership and reinforcing our commitment to delivering exceptional service to our clients. We remain focused on raising the bar to meet your evolving needs.
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The latest insight in our risk and resilience series outlines how organisations can strengthen contractual readiness and protect their position under UAE law. This series is developed to support business leaders to build confidence, resilience and continuity through disruption.
In the next part of our risk and resilience series, we focus on identifying critical services, understanding dependencies and building decision‑making that holds under sustained pressure. This series is developed to support business leaders to build confidence, resilience and continuity through disruption.
The next part of our risk and resilience series explores how organisations can strengthen AML, sanctions and proliferation financing resilience — balancing speed, judgement and regulatory expectation. This series is developed to support business leaders to build confidence, resilience and continuity through disruption.
Read the first insight in our risk and resilience series, which highlights the critical questions leaders should be asking to protect essential services, reduce single points of failure and maintain continuity when it matters most. This series is developed to support business leaders to build confidence, resilience and continuity through disruption.
Grant Thornton’s Women in Business report reveals global trends in gender diversity, leadership representation, and DE&I progress—highlighting the actions organisations must take to accelerate parity and unlock the performance benefits of inclusive leadership.
On 23 February 2026, the UAE Ministry of Finance issued three comprehensive e‑invoicing guides, completing the legal, operational, and technical framework for e‑invoicing. With legislation finalised, ASPs approved, and EmaraTax enabled, businesses must now urgently select an Accredited Service Provider, perform a gap assessment, and prepare systems and processes ahead of mandatory implementation.