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Swap-Free vs Islamic Forex Accounts

A claim about overnight interest is not a complete assessment of Sharia compliance.

General informationSources and dates included

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Check the whole product

Inspect the instrument and contractual structure, ownership or delivery arrangements, leverage, financing and fees. A swap-free switch answers only part of that question. This site does not make a halal or haram determination.

Ask for documented review

Request a dated certificate, the reviewing board or qualified scholar, the named legal entity, covered accounts and instruments, and the certificate’s current scope. If none was checked, display “not verified”, not “not certified”.

Compare a holding schedule

Record grace days, calendar versus trading days, retrospective charging, exclusions, long and short positions, triple rollover and conditions that remove swap-free status. Use the calculator to understand a hypothetical schedule, then substitute verified terms.

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Three documents answer three different questions

A fee schedule answers what is charged. The account agreement describes the product and obligations. A dated Sharia-review document states what was assessed and by whom. Keeping these documents separate prevents a fee label from becoming an unsupported religious conclusion.

Hypothetical comparison: account A waives swaps but charges USD 5 per lot after three nights; B charges USD 3 per lot each night. For 0.1 lots over seven chargeable nights, A costs USD 2 and B USD 2.10 before other charges. That 10-cent difference says nothing about religious certification. Ask separately whether a review covers the exact company, account and instrument.

Sources: Equiti UAE swap-free terms · file June 2026; stated effective date 29 August 2025 ↗

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What evidence supports a Sharia claim?

Request a named and dated review

Ask who reviewed the product, the date, the named company, covered account types and instruments, and the conditions or exclusions. A logo without a retrievable certificate is insufficient for a verified claim in our database.

Check the product structure

Qualified review may need to consider ownership, delivery, leverage, financing and contractual arrangements. A swap-free fee setting answers only one part of those questions.

How this site reports uncertainty

We use “certificate not verified” when none has been checked. That does not mean no certificate exists or that the product is impermissible. We do not issue religious rulings and do not infer certification from a broker’s account name.

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