ADGM additionally emerged because the area’s biggest IFC via the marketplace capitalisation of its registered entities indexed on a inventory trade, underscoring the centre’s efforts to fortify the economic sector’s contribution to Abu Dhabi’s non-oil economic system, which grew to 9.1% in Q1 2025.
H1 used to be additionally outlined via transformative offers and partnerships between a few of Abu Dhabi’s maximum influential establishments and ADGM-based entities, highlighting the centre’s position in enabling international companies to take a position and construct strategic native and regional partnerships.
Commenting at the centre’s ongoing sturdy efficiency, H.E. Ahmed Jasim Al Zaabi, Chairman of ADGM, mentioned, “As we approach a decade of operations, ADGM’s sustained commitment to excellence is strongly reflected not just in its growth numbers, but also in the rising global confidence in Abu Dhabi’s role as a financial powerhouse and the “Capital of Capital”. Record numbers can only be achieved through the depth of our global, regional, and local strategic partnerships and the clarity of our vision.”
The full selection of operational entities inside ADGM, which represents economic and non-financial corporations, grew to two,972 throughout H1, marking a 42% year-on-year enlargement. Those come with 308 economic corporations and a pair of,664 non-financial.
ADGM registered 1,869 new licences, the best selection of licences issued throughout a six-month length since ADGM’s status quo. This represents a 47% enlargement in new licences in comparison to a yr previous and brings the full selection of energetic licences in ADGM to 11,128.
The Monetary Products and services Regulatory Authority issued a complete of 52 In-Theory Approvals (IPAs) for economic products and services corporations, up 27% year-on-year, whilst 45 new Monetary Products and services Permissions (FSPs) have been granted, a forty five% build up.
Robust international and regional presence of most sensible international corporations contains Kimmeridge, Castle, Circle, Oryx International Companions, GMB Restricted, Companions Staff, Carta, Bitcoin Suisse, Custom, Bitgrit, Harrison Boulevard, Stacks Asia DLT Basis, Hidden Roads, Polen Capital, Arcapita, Seviora, Aquila Staff, Skadden, PATRIZIA, NewVest, Investindustrial and Virtual Local weather Center East (DCME).
On the finish of June 2025, the selection of registered fund and asset managers founded out of ADGM reached 154, whilst the full selection of price range greater to 209.
Castle Funding Staff established an administrative center in ADGM and entered right into a USD 1 billion international credit score and actual property co-investment partnership with Mubadala.
US-based asset supervisor Kimmeridge inaugurated its ADGM and signed a MoU with Mubadala Power to co-develop herbal fuel and LNG ventures, setting up a transatlantic power hall via ADGM.
IHC, BlackRock, and ADGM-based Lunate introduced a USD 1 billion+ AI-native reinsurance platform from inside ADGM. With ambitions to control greater than USD 10 billion in liabilities, the challenge positions ADGM as a nucleus for AI-driven international economic answers.
Mubadala and Alpha Dhabi scaled their ADGM-based non-public credit score three way partnership to USD 2.5 billion.
ADGM is now the area’s biggest world economic centre via the marketplace capitalisation of its registered entities. The full price of ADGM-based corporations indexed at the Abu Dhabi Securities Alternate (ADX) has surpassed AED 500 billion via the tip of H1 2025
ADGM representatives participated within the CityWeek 2025 convention in London, the place they engaged with international economic leaders on regulatory collaboration, sustainable finance, ongoing tasks inside AI, in addition to capital markets innovation.
Moreover, ADGM participated in a much broader Abu Dhabi delegation on a sequence of roadshows to China and Japan to spotlight the advantages of putting in in Abu Dhabi and to have interaction with main establishments throughout non-public banking, wealth control, and circle of relatives places of work.
The expanding selection of paintings allows issued via ADGM, introduced its team of workers on Al Maryah Island and Al Reem Island to 35,964 pros on the finish of H1 2025.
The Monetary Products and services Authority concluded 4 new MoUs with regulatory opposite numbers in Azerbaijan, Bhutan, Hong Kong and Sweden, and issued new steerage on sanctions compliance, cybercrime prevention and cybersecurity. Moreover, key legislative improvements have been presented in H1 2025 to align ADGM’s frameworks with world easiest practices in cyber chance, Basel Core Rules and fund regime reporting.
ADGM’s Registration Authority (RA) presented a number of key improvements, such because the release of AccessRP, a virtual device designed to streamline assets passion verification, and the advent of Industrial Lets in Laws, providing larger operational flexibility for non-financial companies. Consistent with ADGM’s ease-of-doing-business time table, the RA additionally rolled out up to date and diminished Charges Regulations, additional simplifying and reducing the price of marketplace access.
The RA signed a strategic MoU with the Astana World Monetary Centre (AIFC) to advertise collaboration and mutual reputation of Working Virtual Platforms (ODPs).
Supervisory job considerably greater, with the RA carrying out 223% extra supervision exams in comparison to H1 2024, underscoring its dedication to keeping up top governance requirements.
The World Bar Affiliation (IBA) introduced that ADGM Courts will host its flagship IBA Arbitration Day in Abu Dhabi in January 2026, opting for ADGM because the venue to assemble famend arbitration, felony and related trade mavens from all over the world.
