Business banking

We help you open a business account with a UAE bank. We prepare your papers and submit them for you.

• We work directly with the banks and know what each one asks for. This is often the difference between an account that opens and one that gets stuck in the bank's checks.
• Free zone companies: an account for your free zone company, at a bank that already accepts the authority that gave your licence.
• Mainland companies: accounts for UAE mainland companies that sell to customers inside the UAE.
• Branches and subsidiaries: here the bank must be satisfied about a parent company it cannot see. This is where applications usually get stuck.
• Family offices and family foundations: accounts for the companies families use to hold their assets together and pass them on.
• Offshore companies: the hardest of the five to open an account for. Knowing early which banks will consider it saves the most time.
• We open accounts for people of every nationality. We specialise in the business types banks find hardest: oil refining, non-precious metal trading, gold and bullion trading, general trading, commercial brokerage and escrow accounts.
• We collect, check and submit your papers for you. We tell you what is still missing, so you never have to guess.

A UAE savings account for people who do not live in the UAE. We guide you through the papers you need.

• For people living outside the UAE who want to keep and move money here.
• It is a personal account. You do not need a UAE company or a UAE residence visa to open it, and it does not give you either.
• You can usually keep money in dirhams and in the main foreign currencies. For most people, this is the reason to open it: a place to keep money, not to run a business.
• You do your day-to-day banking online, so you can use the account when you are not in the UAE.
• Each bank has its own minimum balance, and you must keep it. You will know yours before you apply, not after.
• Some banks need you to come to the UAE in person to open the account, and some do not. We tell you which before you book anything.
• We tell you first which banks are likely to accept you, so you do not waste time on applications that will be refused.

Private banking accounts for wealthy clients.

• For clients who need more than normal business banking: a personal relationship manager, accounts in several currencies and investment services managed for you.
• We check if you are a good fit before we introduce you to a bank. A refused private banking application is slow and difficult to recover from.