Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) has bolstered its place as the biggest and fastest-growing worldwide monetary centre (IFC) within the Center East and North Africa, with belongings beneath administration (AUM) up 42 per cent within the first half of 2025 and whole energetic licences surpassing 11,000.
By June 2025, ADGM had turn into the area’s largest IFC by the market capitalisation of its listed entities, with corporations primarily based on the centre now valued at greater than AED500bn ($136bn) on the Abu Dhabi Securities Trade (ADX).
ADGM registered 1,869 new licences in H1 2025, the best quantity ever in a six-month interval, marking a 47 per cent year-on-year enhance and bringing the overall variety of energetic licences to 11,128.
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The variety of operational entities grew to 2,972, together with 308 monetary corporations and a pair of,664 non-financial corporations.
The Monetary Companies Regulatory Authority (FSRA) additionally issued 52 In-Precept Approvals (IPAs), up 27 per cent, and granted 45 new Monetary Companies Permissions (FSPs), a forty five per cent enhance.
Ahmed Jasim Al Zaabi, Chairman of ADGM, mentioned: “As we method a decade of operations, ADGM’s sustained dedication to excellence is strongly mirrored not simply in its progress numbers, but additionally within the rising international confidence in Abu Dhabi’s position as a monetary powerhouse and the ‘Capital of Capital’.
“File numbers can solely be achieved by way of the depth of our international, regional, and native strategic partnerships and the readability of our imaginative and prescient.”
H1 2025 noticed main names together with Kimmeridge, Fortress, Circle, Companions Group, PIMCO, Skadden and Bitcoin Suisse develop inside ADGM. US-based Nuveen, which manages between $3–5bn from its ADGM base, expects its AUM within the area to double in three years.
Main strategic offers anchored in ADGM included:
- Fortress Funding Group establishing an workplace and launching a $1bn co-investment partnership with Mubadala
- Kimmeridge opening an ADGM workplace and signing an MoU with Mubadala Power on LNG ventures
- IHC, BlackRock and Lunate launching a $1bn+ AI-native reinsurance platform with ambitions to handle $10bn in liabilities
- Mubadala and Alpha Dhabi scaling their ADGM-based non-public credit score three way partnership to $2.5bn
On the finish of H1 2025, ADGM was house to 154 asset managers and 209 funds, with AUM surging 42 per cent year-on-year. Its workforce grew to 35,964 professionals throughout Al Maryah Island and Al Reem Island, reflecting Abu Dhabi’s wider inhabitants progress of seven.5 per cent in 2024 to 4.14m.
ADGM strengthened worldwide ties with roadshows in China and Japan, participation in CityWeek London, and new MoUs with regulators in Azerbaijan, Bhutan, Hong Kong and Sweden. Its Registration Authority additionally launched new Business Permits Laws, diminished charges, and digital instruments to streamline operations.
As ADGM prepares to mark its tenth anniversary in October 2025, the IFC stays centered on deepening its position as a hub for international capital flows, regulatory innovation and expertise growth.
With greater than 11,000 licences, rising international partnerships, and file AUM, ADGM continues to anchor Abu Dhabi’s place because the “Capital of Capital.”
