Money & Banking
Bank rules, fees, taxes, remittances, exchange rates and market moves that reach a UAE resident's accounts. Finance items say what changed and what to watch, never what to buy, sell or hold.
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- An Abu Dhabi court ordered a bank to refund a customer Dh92,854, clear his credit card debt and issue a no-liability certificate after it could not prove he agreed to the interest and fees.
- UAE real GDP fell 2.1% year on year to Dh476.9 billion in Q2 2026, leaving first-half growth at 0.4% (Dh961.9 billion), the Federal Competitiveness and Statistics Centre said.
- Etihad Rail confirmed demand-based fares: Abu Dhabi–Dubai Comfort tickets now cost Dh39–59 and Premium Dh109–149, against launch fares of Dh39 and Dh109.
- The UAE's economic partnership agreement with the Eurasian Economic Union (Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia) entered into force on 6 October, cutting or removing tariffs.
- Dubai Police arrested two suspects accused of phone scams in which callers posed as staff of official and international bodies and got residents to send money abroad; losses were Dh11,877,532.
- UAE non-oil firms raised output prices in September at the steepest rate since May 2011, S&P Global's PMI survey showed; the index held at 55.3, unchanged from August.