Compliance by design

  • Keys never touch a device.
  • Every party is screened.
  • Every transaction is recorded.

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Licensed structure

Who performs regulated activities, and what Saleem is.

5 Lanes Limited, trading as Saleem, is registered in ADGM and is not licensed to conduct regulated financial activities. At launch, licensed partners will perform fiat cash-in and cash-out, custody and any other regulated activity required in each jurisdiction. Saleem will provide the software layer for instruction validation, screening orchestration, routing, records and reconciliation.

Saleem may pursue additional permissions, directly or through a group entity, as the operating model and corridor requirements mature.

Who performs what

Target operating model, not present fact.

SaleemSending partnerReceiving partner
Cash-inValidates the instructionReceives the funds and converts them, under its licenceNone
CustodyHolds no funds and no keys; provides the interfacesHolds value until it is transferred, under its licenceA licensed custodian holds recipient balances
KYCOrchestrates the checks and records the resultVerifies the payer, under its licenceVerifies the recipient, under its licence
Sanctions screeningOrchestrates screening of every party and payment; records the resultScreens and decides on its own customersScreens and decides on its own customers
Travel RuleFormats and carries the originator and beneficiary dataMeets the originator obligationMeets the beneficiary obligation
RoutingChooses the route and the networkNoneNone
RecordsOne record per payment, and the reconciliation fileKeeps its own regulatory recordsKeeps its own regulatory records
Cash-outValidates and records the instructionNonePays out in local currency, under its licence

Syria sanctions position

  • Comprehensive US programme revoked: E.O. 14312, 30 June 2025
  • Caesar Act repealed: 18 December 2025
  • State Sponsor of Terrorism designation rescinded: 24 August 2026 (OFAC)
  • Residual designations screened on every transaction
  • EU and UK positions tracked separately

OFAC, Syria sanctions programme page; US Congress, FY2026 NDAA. Position pending compliance review.

Screen every transaction

KYC, sanctions and the Travel Rule, on every party and every transfer.

KYC and identity

Document identity verification, biometrics and risk-tiered onboarding, through two providers.

Sanctions and blockchain screening

Counterparty risk, sanctions, surveillance and analytics, four providers in consensus; residual designations screened on every transaction.

FATF Travel Rule

IVMS101 originator and beneficiary data exchanged on every settlement chain.

Tiered verification is a specified design, with limits scaled by verification level. Compliance providers are integrated at the client layer; the server-side wiring sits within production scope.

Protect every account

Custody, key management and data protection.

Custody and keys

Recipient balances are to be held by a licensed custodian and accessed through Saleem's interfaces; keys do not sit on the handset. This is the target operating model at launch. The account is the phone number, protected by a PIN, so a lost or shared handset does not expose the balance.

Wallet infrastructure

Institutional-grade wallet infrastructure covering end-user wallets, partner and institutional settlement, and treasury reserves across six settlement networks.

Data protection

An encrypted document vault (AES-256, SHA-256 integrity) with jurisdiction-aware retention. Saleem never sells, licenses or transfers consumer data; any analytics are opt-in, consent-based and cohort-level, with every query audit-logged; an independent Data Protection Officer is appointed ahead of launch with board access, and data subject access requests are honoured within statutory windows.

Audit everything

Records, reporting, reconciliation and governance.

Records

Every payment, approval and spend on a tamper-proof audit trail; every bulk disbursement row passes six sequential compliance stages.

Reporting

Exports in bank formats: camt.053 and camt.054, MT940, BAI2 and CSV.

Reconciliation

Disbursement reconciliation per recipient; every batch and every failure accounted for.

Governance

Two people approve every disbursement, and a compliance console covering risk overview, KYC review and the document vault, Travel Rule transfers, screening consensus and the audit trail.

Six client surfaces are built and demonstrable against mocked services. The production backend, licensed-partner connections and independent security testing remain pre-launch work. No customer funds move on the platform today.

Supported regulated assets

Dirham payment tokens under the CBUAE regime (DDSC, AEDZ, AE Coin) and dollar tokens recognised by the ADGM FSRA (USDC, USDT, USDU), on six settlement networks. Status and licence per network and token

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Questions partners ask

All twelve questions