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SWIFT Us er Group

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Contents Pages Introduction 1 Events & News 2 SWIFT User Group (U.A.E), membership 3 - 4 Statistics 5 - 10

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Emirates Banks Association SWIFT User Group (UAE)

Volume 16, Issue 4 No. (62) December. 2011

To : All Members of SWIFT User Group (UAE)

After Greetings,

We are pleased to introduce to you our Quarterly Newsletter (Volume 16, Issue 4- No.62) about SWIFT operations in the UAE and the GCC, covering the period from October to December 2011.

Please note that all the statistics herein, are selected and /or extracted from the SWIFT publications.

Looking forward to have any views or comments from you on this newsletter, which will be highly appreciated, for the sake of its improvement.

Assuring you of our best cooperation, we remain .

Sincerely yours,

Fathi M. Skaik General Manager EBA Chairperson SWIFT User Group (UAE)

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Events & News ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ

SWIFT Regional Conference for the :

Registration is opened www.swift.com for this conference which will take place in from 27-28 March 2012 :

Venue: The Westin Abu Dhabi : Gulf Resort & Spa Abu Dhabi Gulf Club Sas Al Nakhl – Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates

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SWIFT USER GROUP ( UAE ) * As at 31 December 2011 ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ

1 -AL MASRAF 38-Emirates Islamic Bank

2 -Emirates NBD Bank 39-UAE Central Bank 3 -Commercial Bank of Dubai 40-Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank 4 -MashreqBank 41-Fisrt Gulf Bank 5 -Investbank 42-National Bank of Umm-Al Qaiwain

6 -United Arab Bank 43-Abu Dhabi Investment Company 7 -Union National Bank 44-Arab Monetary Fund 8 -National Bank of Fujairah 45-Abu Dhabi Investment Authority 9-Dubai Islamic Bank 46-UAE Exchange Centre 10-Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank 47-Dubai Int. Financial Exchange Ltd (DIFX) 11-National Bank of Abu Dhabi 48- Persia International Bank 12-RAK Bank 49- Dubai Gold Currency Exchange 13-HSBC Bank Middle East 50- Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation 14-Sharjah Islamic Bank 51- Banque de Commerce et de Placement SA 15-Bank of Sharjah 52- Janata Bank 16-Commercial Bank International 53- Doha Bank 17-Dubai Bank PJSC 54- National Bank of Bahrain 18-Arab Emirates Investment Bank P.J.S.C. 55- Noor Islamic Bank 19-Arab Bank Plc. 56- Al Mal Capital P.S.C. 20-Lloyds TSB Bank Plc. 57- Al Hilal Bank 21-Standard Chartered Bank 58- Axis Bank Limited 22-The Royal Bank of Scotland 59- Natixis Dubai 23-Bank Melli Iran 60- Arqaam Capital Limited 24-Bank Saderat Iran 61- Abu Dhabi Fund for Development 25-Habib Bank AG Zurich 62- SAMBA Financial Group

26-Al Ahli Bank of - Dubai 63- Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Middle East) Ltd 27-Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank 64- Ajmam Bank 28-BLOM BANK FRANCE S.A. 65- Al Mal Securities Emirates LLC 29-Bank of Baroda 66- Intesa Sanpaolo – Dubai Branch 30-Banque Misr 67- State Bank of India 31-Al Khaliji France 68- Credit Europe

32-United Bank Limited 69- Direct Broker for

33-Habib Bank Limited 70-BNP Paribas

34-Arab African International Bank 71- Fortis Bank 35-El Nilein Bank 72- Al Fardan Exchange 36-Barclays Bank Plc 73- Rasmala Investments Ltd

37-Citibank N.A. 74- Al Ahli Bank of Kuwait – Abu Dhabi

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SWIFT USER GROUP ( UAE ) * As at 31 December 2011 ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ 75- National Bank of Kuwait 113- Al Gargawi Exchange LLC 76- Emirates Industrial Bank 77- Deutsche Bank AG 114- Economic Exchange Centre 78- Al Fuad Exchange 115- The Bank of Tokyo – Mitsubishi UFJ 79- Royal Capital PJSC 116- ICICI Bank Limited 80- Al Ansari Exchange – UAE 117- Commerzbank AG Dubai Branch 81- Bank of Nova Scotia 118- Gulf Express Exchange 82- LuLu International Exchange 119- Siraj Finance Company- PPC 83- Mawarid Finance 120- United Investment Bank 84- Smart Exchange 121- ICBC Abu Dhabi Branch 85- Punjab National Bank 86- IDBI Bank LTD 87- Wall Street Exchange Centre 88- Al Rostamani International Exchange 89- Lari Exchange 90- Al Dahab Exchange 91- Multinet Trust Exchange 92- Finance House 93- National Bonds Corporation 94- Alfa Exchange 95- Abu Dhabi Retirement Pension and Benefits Fund 96- Arab Trade Financing Program 97- Dubai Exchange Centre 98- ES Bankers Dubai Limited 99 – Abu Dhabi Investment Council 100- Kuwait Turkish Participation Bank 101- MIRABAUD ( Middle East ) Limited 102- Apex Fund Services (Dubai) Ltd 103- Orient Exchange Co. (L.L.C.) 104- DBS Bank Limited 105- Hinduja Bank Middle East LTD 106- Arab Link Money Transfer 107- Royal Investment Bank Ltd 108- Universal Exchange Center 109- Corporate International Business Finance 110- Eastnets FZ-LLC 111- Louis Dreyfus Commodities MEA Trading DMCC 112- Al Rasheed Exchange

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Statistics Fourth Quarter (October - December) 2011 ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــ

Traffic (Messages) Sent in the United Arab Emirates Distributed by Category:

Month Total Traffic (Messages) sent Distributed by Category

Traffic Payments Financial Trading Trade Finance Securities System

Sent Customer Financial Travelers Balance Foreign Precious Collect. Document. Securities System

Transfers, Institution Cheques Reporting Exchange Metals & Cash Credits &

Cheques Transfers M.Market Syndic. Letters Guarant.

Cat.(1) Cat.(2) Cat.(8) Cat.(9) Cat.(3) Cat.(6) Cat.(4) Cat.(7) Cat.(5) Cat.(0)

Oct. 11 1,951,162 949,772 132,225 5 374,787 83,846 1,340 83,846 84,068 229,878 11,395

Nov . 11 1,760,660 899,790 128,383 0 353,005 78,658 1,519 15,415 78,205 193,749 11,936

Dec. 11 1,840,465 968,137 131,709 0 367,396 67,667 548 14,782 83,775 194,888 11,563

Total 5,552,287 2,817,699 392,317 5 1,095,188 230,171 3,407 114,043 246,048 618,515 34,894

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Traffic (Messages) Sent & Received & Growth Rate in the United Arab Emirates

Month Traffic (Messages) Sent Traffic (Messages) Received Growth Growth 2011 2010 Rate( % ) 2011 2010 Rate( % )

Oct..11 1,883,316 1,598,998 18% 1,594,090 1,288,532 24%

Nov.11 1,760,660 1,528,407 15% 1,498,541 1,237,778 21%

Dec.11 1,840,465 1,627,123 13% 1,587,045 1,362,206 17%

Total 5,484,441 4,754,528 15% 4,679,676 3,888,516 20%

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Traffic (Messages) Sent & Received & Growth Rate in the GCC

Month Traffic (Messages) Sent Traffic (Messages) Received Growth Growth

2011 2010 Rate( % ) 2011 2010 Rate( % )

Oct..11 4,172,272 3,609,536 16% 3,296,638 2,431,209 36%

Nov.11 3,717,979 3,410,553 9% 2,704,205 2,293,269 18%

Dec.11 4,028,473 3,647,508 10% 2,881,237 2,537,356 14%

Total 11,918,724 10,667,597 12% 8,882,080 7,261,834 22%

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Traffic (Messages) Sent in UAE & GCC

Month UAE GCC UAE/GCC

2011 2011 ( % )

Oct..11 1,951,162 4,172,272 47%

Nov.11 1,760,660 3,717,979 47%

Dec.11 1,840,465 4,028,473 46%

Total 5,552,287 11,918,724 47%

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Traffic (Messages) Received in UAE & GCC

Month UAE GCC UAE/GCC

2011 2011 ( % )

Oct..11 1,594,090 3,296,638 48%

Nov.11 1,498,541 2,704,205 55%

Dec.11 1,587,045 2,881,237 55%

Total 4,679,676 8,882,080 53%

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Members , Sub - members & Participants Statistics in GCC AS AT 31/12/2012

Sub-Members Code Countries Members Live Live Participants Live Total Live United Arab AE Emirates 22 47 53 122

BH Bahrain 19 43 20 82

KW Kuwait 14 10 22 46

OM Oman 6 10 5 21

QA Qatar 9 17 17 43

SA Saudi Arabia 14 15 10 39

Total 84 142 127 353

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