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M-Banking in UAE, is it regulated?

July 2009 - Finance. Legal Developments by Habib Al Mulla & Company.

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Whilst driving to work in the morning you receive an sms from your wife reminding you to pay the DEWA bill. You realize that you have one internal meeting at 9.30am and another meeting at 3.00pm. There is no time for you to go to DEWA office or other payment outlets and you are betting whether you have time to pay the bill online from your desktop computer. In fact the only time you have to think about this house chore is the time when you are alone in the car driving to the office. However with the advent of mobile banking, the bill can be paid by pressing a few buttons on your mobile phone and by the time you reach the office, you are free to concentrate on other matters.

Such is an example of how convenience m-banking is and soon it may be of a necessity for peoples living in the fast paced UAE.

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