Move money in UAE dirham — without a UAE bank account*.
Collect from UAE customers, pay UAE suppliers, and manage the FX in between — on named AED virtual accounts that settle to you in the currency you already bank in.
trade & logistics hub connecting the Gulf, Asia, and Africa
Why local rails matter
The UAE already moves at real-time speed. Your rails should meet it there.
In the UAE, an instant bank transfer isn't a premium feature — it's the baseline. Aani, the Central Bank of the UAE's national instant payments platform launched by Al Etihad Payments in October 2023, settles transfers in around three seconds, 24 hours a day, and is now connected to 74 licensed financial institutions. A cross-border wire that clears in three to five days doesn't compete; it just loses the transaction.
That expectation creates two problems for merchants operating from outside the UAE. The first is collection: without a local account, there's no straightforward way for a UAE customer to pay you in dirham, and generic pooled accounts make it difficult to tell whose payment just landed. The second is payment: paying a UAE supplier from abroad usually means a slow international wire, an unfavourable exchange rate buried in the transfer, and days of uncertainty before the supplier can confirm receipt.
DSGPay solves both sides from one platform. You get dedicated named local AED virtual accounts plus the foreign exchange to move value in and out of dirham at rates built for volume, not for one-off retail transfers. Because the dirham is pegged to the US dollar at a fixed rate, your FX exposure on the AED leg is predictable in a way few other corridors can match. No UAE entity, no local bank relationship to negotiate, no separate FX desk to manage. AED in, your currency out — or the reverse, for payouts.
The DSGPay stack for the UAE
Four building blocks. One AED-denominated ledger.
Use one, or use all four — collections, payouts, and FX are designed to sit on top of the same named account infrastructure.
Collect
1. Named Virtual Accounts
A dedicated AED virtual accounts opened in your merchant name. UAE customers deposit directly into it in real time, exactly as they would to any local business — no card rails, no wallets, no waiting.
Customer deposits AED
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Your named account
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Settled in USD, EUR, JPY, SGD, GBP
Reconcile
2. Collections
One-time, single-use AED virtual accounts generated per transaction or per customer. Built for high-volume merchants who need to identify exactly which UAE customer paid, without manual matching.
Unique account per order
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Auto-matched deposit
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Clean reconciliation
Pay out
3. AUD Real-Time Payouts
Prefund in USD, EUR, or your working currency, and pay UAE suppliers, partners, or employees in dirham in real time — on Aani, the same rails UAE businesses use to pay each other, with an instant transfer cap of AED 50,000 per transaction.
You prefund
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DSGPay converts
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Supplier paid instantly
Convert
4. AED FX
Buy and sell AED across 45 currencies, including USD, EUR, JPY, SGD, AUD, at rates built for the volume behind your collections and payouts, not a one-off retail conversion.
45 funding currencies
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Competitive AED rate
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Applied automatically
Why Australia, on DSGPay
Built for how money actually moves in UAE
Your presence in Australia
A named AED virtual account gives you a local footprint without the cost or delay of setting one up yourself.
Real-time reconciliation
Clearly separate and identify incoming AED deposits so every transaction and balance updates instantly.
Faster and cheaper
Local AED rails settle faster and at a lower cost than routing every transaction through SWIFT.
45 currencies
Fund and settle in USD, EUR, JPY, SGD, AUD, and dozens of other major and regional currencies alongside AED.
How the money moves
Two directions, one platform
Collections bring AED in and settle out in your currency. Payouts start in your currency and land in AED. DSGPay's FX sits in the middle of both.