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Below is a detailed breakdown of the average expected fees over five years for each tier of Bank and Insurer:

Institution Type

5-year Average (AED)

Tier 1 Bank

1,064,000

Tier 1 Insurer

60,000

Tier 2 Bank

252,000

Tier 2 Insurer

30,000

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Payment Type

LFIs to TPPs

Merchant Collection

  • Pricing is capped at 38 bps of transaction value in Year 1, to be linearly decreasing over the next 5 years to 25 bps as follows:

    • Year 1: 38 bps

    • Year 2: 35 bps

    • Year 3: 32 bps

    • Year 4: 29 bps

    • Year 5: 25 bps

  • Charges are capped at 50 AED per transaction for high-value transactions above AED 20,000

  • Free under volumes below 200 AED per merchant per day

Peer-to-Peer
(incl. SME-to-SME)

  • Capped at 25 fils per transaction

Me-to-Me

  • 20 fils per transaction in Year 1, decreasing to 18 fils in Year 2 and 17 fils in Year 3

Large Value Collection

  • Large value transactions will be capped at 4 AED per transactions for certain types of payments

  • Large value collections include:

    • Rent payments to non-commercial landlords

    • Consumer-to-SME collections through invoices with a value exceeding AED 5,000

    Note: Additional contexts for large value collections will be defined and incorporated into the scope in the near future.

Note:

  1. LFIs are prohibited from imposing additional charges on end users for transactions initiated by Open Finance APIs related to data sharing. However, charges for non-Open Finance API-initiated payments may be applied according to the product tariff agreed with the customer.

  2. Fees will only be applied to successful transactions. 

  3. Each payment within a bulk payment is considered an individual transaction by commercial model for billing purposes, and charged accordingly, ensuring that charges are accurately and fairly applied.

TPP to End Users

TPPs to End Users charges are summarized below:

Payment Type

TPPs to End User

Merchant Collection

  • CBUAE suggests TPPs to keep prices at 63 bps of transaction value or below in Year 1, linearly decreasing to 50 bps in Year 5 as follows:

    • Year 1: 63 bps

    • Year 2: 60 bps

    • Year 3: 57 bps

    • Year 4: 54 bps

    • Year 5: 50 bps

Peer-to-Peer
(incl. SME-to-SME)

  • CBUAE suggests TPPs to keep prices at 50 fils per transactions or below

Me-to-Me

  • CBUAE suggests TPPs to keep prices at 50 fils per transactions or below

Large Value Collection

  • CBUAE suggests TPPs to keep prices at 10 AED or lower for large value collection (e.g., rent payments

  • Large value collections include:

    • Rent payments to non-commercial landlords

    • Consumer-to-SME collections through invoices with a value exceeding AED 5,000

    Note: Additional contexts for large value collections will be defined and incorporated into the scope in the near future.

3.1.2 Corporate Treasury

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Note:

  1. Fees will only be applied to successful transactions.

  2. Each payment within a bulk payment is considered an individual transaction by commercial model for billing purposes, and charged accordingly, ensuring that charges are accurately and fairly applied.

3.1.2 Corporate Treasury

Target Segment

Corporate

Relevant Open Finance Functionalities

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LFIs’ charges to TPPs are capped at 250 fils by the CBUAE

Note:

  1. LFIs are prohibited from imposing additional charges on end users for transactions initiated by Open Finance APIs related to data sharing. However, charges for non-Open Finance API-initiated payments may be applied according to the product tariff agreed with the customer.

TPPs to End Users

  1. Fees will only be applied to successful transactions.

  2. Each payment within a bulk payment is considered an individual transaction by commercial model for billing purposes, and charged accordingly, ensuring that charges are accurately and fairly applied.

TPPs to End Users

TPPs' charges to End Users are capped at 450 fils by the CBUAE.

Note:

  1. Fees will only be applied to successful transactions.

  2. Each payment within a bulk payment is considered an individual transaction by commercial model for billing purposes, and charged accordingly, ensuring that charges are accurately and fairly applied.

3.2 Data Sharing Functionalities

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