IBAN announcement

In compliance with UAE Central Bank regulations, we are pleased to inform you that National Bank of Fujairah has successfully applied the International Bank Account Number (IBAN) to all customer accounts. It would be used for all inward and outward remittances within the UAE, WPS salary payments within the UAE as well as inward remittances from outside the country. 

IBAN is an international banking standard used to identify bank accounts (excluding credit cards). Its main purpose is to facilitate the automatic processing of money transfers and to improve the speed and accuracy of payment transactions.

Effective from 19th Nov 2011, all banks in the UAE are required to process and accept payment instructions using IBAN. Consequently, you will be required to provide an IBAN for all instructions of value when making payments from or receiving payments to your account. Do communicate your IBAN to all parties from whom you are expecting remittances.

In case the IBAN is not used, the processing of both inward and outward payments to your account IS LIKELY TO BE REJECTED OR MAY be delayed WITH additional processing charges as may be prescribed by the Central Bank from time to time.

If you have standing orders for effecting payments from your account to beneficiary account(s) held in banks within the UAE other than NBF, you will need to provide the IBAN equivalent for the beneficiary account(s).

All NBF payment/instructions submission channels have also been enhanced to accept IBAN.

Feel free to contact us if you have questions, and we thank you for banking with us.