In a significant development, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has garnered approval for a compliance inspection from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), marking a milestone in the country's relentless efforts to combat money laundering. The progress made by the UAE in key areas such as facilitating money-laundering investigations, imposing sanctions for non-compliance at financial institutions, and increasing prosecutions has positioned it for potential removal from the FATF's grey list of countries under enhanced monitoring.