Open finance and APIs

Service initiation

An open finance service in which a licensed provider initiates a transaction on a customer's account or product, with consent.

Service initiation is the open finance service of initiating, by electronic means, a transaction relating to a customer's account or product, as the Central Bank of the UAE's regulation defines it. It goes beyond payment initiation to actions such as placements, withdrawals, redemptions and orders. The regulation requires consent for each transaction, or at the outset for a recurring transaction.

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This entry explains a term; it is not a Shariah ruling. Approving a product is for each institution's own Shariah board and regulator.

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