Register · United Arab Emirates

CBUAE Register of Licensed Financial Institutions - Exchange Business

Check whether a firm appears on Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE)’s register, with its status, licence number and activities. Institutions on it that also hold a BIC show their licences on their own page.

62
Institutions
Active · inactive not published
12
Hold a BIC
19% of institutions
62
On a tracked register
100% of institutions
31
LEI mapped
50% of institutions
62
Licence number published
100% of institutions

CBUAE-EB at a glance

Every row is the same 62 institutions, split by one attribute

Type

  • Money service business 62 · 100%

Identification

Regulation level

LEI

  • LEI mapped 31 · 50%
  • No LEI mapped 31 · 50%
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AttributeInstitutionsShare
Type
Money service business62100%
Identification
BIC and a register licence1219%
Register only, no BIC5081%
Regulation level
Prudential licence62100%
LEI
LEI mapped3150%
No LEI mapped3150%

An institution is one entry in the directory: a BIC8 in Swift’s directory, or a firm on a tracked register that holds no BIC. Licences held by an institution with a BIC are shown on its page.

Retrieved 24 September 2026

Institutions on CBUAE-EB

The first 25 of the 62 institutions with an active licence or registration on CBUAE-EB, with or without a BIC: prudentially supervised and larger institutions first.

See all 62 institutions on CBUAE-EB →

What this register publishes

Check what CBUAE Register of Licensed Financial Institutions - Exchange Business records before relying on a status: fields vary from one register to another.

Fields published

Share of the 62 licences and registrations on the register, as at 24 September 2026

Licence numbers
100% of licences
Registration dates
0% of licences
End dates
0% of licences
Inactive entries
Not published by the register
Activities
Published
LEI
Matched by Elucidate for 50% of the register’s records

Limits of this register

  • CBUAE Register of Licensed Financial Institutions - Exchange Business publishes current entries only. Entries removed from it are not kept, so none is marked inactive.

Licences by class

All 62 licences and registrations on CBUAE-EB are of one class: Money Transmitter / Remittance.

Institutions on CBUAE-EB that hold a BIC

Of the 62 institutions on CBUAE-EB, 12 hold a BIC in Swift’s directory. Their licences on this register are shown on their page.

See all 12 institutions that hold a BIC on CBUAE-EB →

Sources & method

An institution is one entry in the directory: a BIC8 in Swift’s directory, or a firm on a tracked register that holds no BIC. Licences held by an institution with a BIC are shown on its page. Institutions come from Swift’s ISO 9362 BIC directory and from the public registers of financial regulators; a register record joins an institution that holds a BIC only through a shared LEI, never by name alone.

Institutions without a BIC are not screened against sanctions lists. An institution missing from this register is not necessarily unregulated.

Read the methodology →

Sources for this page

  • CBUAE Register of Licensed Financial Institutions - Exchange Business—Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) · register ↗ retrieved 24 September 2026

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