Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) is an international financial centre and free zone located on Al Maryah Island in the United Arab Emirates's capital, Abu Dhabi.
[citation needed] The financial centre was established in 2013 and became fully operational in October 2015.
[1]It has three authorities – the financial services regulator, the registration bureau and the ADGM courts, whose Chief Justice is Lord Hope of Craighead.
[2][3] In January 2015, the Abu Dhabi Global Market announced that it had renamed the location it was based in, “Sowwah Square”, to "Abu Dhabi Global Market Square".
[5] That same year ADGM joined the World Alliance of International Financial Centers.