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Corporate banking, prepared properly
A UAE bank does not reject your company. It rejects your file. We build the file the compliance team is going to ask for, match you to the banks most likely to accept your profile, and tell you where you stand before you apply.
Nobody can guarantee you a bank account
Not us, not anyone. Account opening is a compliance decision made inside the bank, against criteria that change. Any firm that guarantees an account is either paying someone or lying to you. What we can do is remove the reasons a file gets declined.
01WHAT WE DO
Building the file
Bank matching
Different banks have different appetites by nationality, sector, expected turnover and source of funds. We tell you which two or three are worth approaching and which would waste a month.
KYC and source-of-funds pack
Shareholder documents, corporate structure chart, proof of the money’s origin, and an explanation that reads clearly to someone who has never met you.
Business plan and flows
A short document setting out who pays you, who you pay, in what currencies and roughly how much. Most declines come from this being vague.
Introduction and follow-up
The application is submitted and chased. If it is declined, we tell you why and what changes before the next attempt.
Payment and merchant accounts
Where a traditional bank is slow or unlikely, we set out the regulated alternatives and their trade-offs.
02WHY FILES FAIL
What makes an application weak
- A licence activity that does not match the business being described
- Counterparties in jurisdictions the bank treats as high risk
- No clear, documented explanation of where the shareholder capital came from
- A structure with layers the bank cannot see through to a real person
- Expected turnover that does not match the size of the setup
How we charge for this
We charge a fixed fee for preparing and submitting the file. We do not charge a success fee, and we do not take a commission from any bank. That way the advice about which bank to approach stays advice.
Start with the advice, not the invoice
Thirty minutes, a written recommendation, no obligation. If the UAE is not right for you, we will say so.