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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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API Hub fees will be set at 2.5 fils per API call for all payment initiation use cases

LFIs to TPPs charges

LFIs to TPPs charges are summarized below:

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Payment Type

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LFIs to TPPs

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Merchant Collection

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. If a payment transaction occurs within 2 hours of a Balance Check call or a Confirmation of Payee call, both the Balance Check and Confirmation of Payee calls will be charged separately at 0.5 fils each (instead of 2.5 fils), in addition to the 2.5 fils fee applied for the payment initiation call

LFIs to TPPs charges

LFIs to TPPs charges are summarized below:

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

Bulk SME Payment

  • Capped at 250 fils.

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.

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  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

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Payments

Target Segment

Corporate

Note:

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Call Type

Definition

LFIs to TPPs Charges

Attended Call

Attended API calls represent the manual initiation of transaction data requests, requiring active user involvement and consent for each request.

  • Free for up to 15 pages per customer per day

  • Pricing is market determined for any call exceeding that threshold

Unattended Call

Unattended API calls represented automated initiation of transaction data requests which can be used for scenarios such as data refresh.

  • Free for up to 5 pages per customer per day

  • Pricing is market determined for any call exceeding that threshold

Note:

  • Each page consists of a maximum of 100 linesAn API call is charged for every 100 lines of transaction data, with a maximum age span of 13 months per call. If an API call returns more than 100 lines of transaction data, it will be treated considered as multiple pages, with each additional page charged at 2.5 fils, unless within the free usage thresholdcalls and charged accordingly, including within LFI to TPP allowances and fees. Within the pagination structure of a transactional data API call, there can be 100 lines of data present per page.

  • The fixed rate of 2.5 fils per page will be applied for each individual call, while LFIs are permitted to charge only for update requests.

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TPPs to End Users charges are summarized below:

Call Type

Definition

LFIs TPPs to TPPs End Users Charges

Attended Call

Attended API calls represent the manual initiation of transaction data requests, requiring active user involvement and consent for each request.

  • Free for up to 15 calls per customer per day

  • Pricing is market determined for any call exceeding that threshold

Unattended Call

Unattended API calls represented automated initiation of transaction data requests which can be used for scenarios such as data refresh.

  • Free for up to 5 calls per customer per day

  • Pricing is market determined for any call exceeding that threshold

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  • any call exceeding that threshold

Note:

  • An API call is charged for every 100 lines of transaction data, with a maximum age span of 13 months per call. If an API call returns more than 100 lines of transaction data, it will be considered as multiple calls and charged accordingly, including within LFI to TPP allowances and fees. Within the pagination structure of a transactional data API call, there can be 100 lines of data present per page.

3.2.2 Other Data Sharing Functionalities

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Below is a list of all the relevant Open Finance functionalities:

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API Hub fees will be set at 2.5 fils per API call.

LFIs to TPPs fees

The customer details and confirmation of payee use case will not incur charges from LFIs to TPPs.

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API Hub fees

API Hub fees will be set at at 2.5 fils for data sharing and 12.5 fils per call for quotes.
This charge is independent from the number of quotes included in the API call.

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TPPs are only permitted to charge broker commissions and must be licensed brokers to provide quotes.

Charges will be market determinedThe request of insurance data and quotes will not be chargeable by TPPs for both Life and Non-Life insurance types.

3.2.4 Corporate

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Data

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Target Segment

Corporate

Relevant Open Finance Functionalities

Below is a list of all the relevant Open Finance functionalities:

  • Corporate Treasury Data:

    • Accounts Details

    • Balance and Transaction Details

    • Scheduled Payment Details

    • Direct Debits Details

    • Beneficiaries Details

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LFIs to TPPs fees

Corporate Treasury Data use case will incur a charge of 40 fils for every 100 lines of data, to be charged by the LFI to the TPP.

TPPs to End Users

The Corporate Treasury Data use case will involve charges for the end user, which will be applied by the TPP and determined by market conditions.

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The below timeline defines the start date for each of the five years, which exclusively affects LFI to TPP Fees, as outlined in the table below:

Year

Start Date

Year 1

January TBC – Estimated May 2025

Year 2

January TBC – Estimated May 2026

Year 3

January TBC – Estimated May 2027

Year 4

January TBC – Estimated May 2028

Year 5

January TBC – Estimated May 2029

Note: Start dates are provisional and subject to change

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