Editorial policy

What we publish — and what we won't.

currency.ae exists to answer one question honestly: what is a currency really worth? That only means something if you can trust every number and every sentence on the page. This is the standard we hold ourselves to — publicly, so you can hold us to it too.

What we publish

• Real data, not estimates dressed as facts. Every rate is the live mid-market midpoint — the middle of the interbank buy and sell price — sourced from a named data provider and refreshed about every 60 seconds. How each number is produced is set out in our Methodology.
• Per-pair substance backed by numbers. On a pair page, the rate, inverse, conversion tables and the 7-day / 30-day / 52-week ranges are all computed from that pair's own data — never templated filler.
• Honest, range-aware verdicts. Our one-line timing verdict describes only what the data shows over the window you're viewing. A flat pair reads "held steady"; we never manufacture a trend that isn't there.
• Clearly-labelled estimates. Where we illustrate typical costs (the Typical costs page), every figure is a hedged range drawn from cited, neutral sources — never a precise number we can't defend.
• Sourced facts with review dates. Facts that can age — a currency's peg, its central bank, its history — carry named sources and a visible date they were last reviewed.
• News gated to primary sources, plus named specialists. Our News section carries only significant currency and crypto developments, drawn from primary and official sources — central banks and financial regulators, including the UAE's VARA and SCA for digital assets — plus a small number of named specialist outlets (currently CoinDesk) for digital-asset coverage. Every item links to its source. Items are tone-filtered to remove hype and speculation, and we publish no price forecasts or price targets; where we add a one-line "why it matters", it explains significance, never predicts a move. On a quiet day — when nothing new clears our bar — we say so plainly and show the most recent stories that did, rather than pad the page with filler.

How we rank the News

We order stories by significance, not just recency, in two steps.

First, by tier — most consequential first:

1. Central-bank, currency and UAE news — rate decisions and monetary policy, major exchange-rate moves, UAE and Gulf developments and remittance corridors, and the money-system side of crypto (stablecoins, central-bank digital currencies, and virtual-asset regulation). These lead.
2. Everything else in scope — other crypto (funds, network upgrades, legal cases), and explainers.
3. Crypto security incidents — hacks, exploits and outages. These never lead and are the first to drop off.

Then, within a tier, by weight — we consider how relevant the story is to currencies, the size of the move, how much it matters to a UAE reader, the authority of the source, how fresh it is, and how many independent reputable outlets carried it — and we down-rank generic company news and routine bulletins. Older reputable stories sink but are never dropped — they backfill a quiet day.

What we refuse to publish

• Invented analysis or forecasts. We do not predict where a rate is going, tell you when to buy, or write market "commentary" we can't source. There is no such thing as a confident guess here.
• Charts or figures that imply data we don't hold. Every chart, trend line, sparkline, arrow, or percentage is drawn from real rates and real history — or it isn't shown at all. We never seed, fake, or "sample" a graph to look livelier; a visual with no real data behind it is removed, not filled in.
• Unsourced claims about economies. Any statement about why a currency moves is either a structural fact (for example, a currency's peg) or attributed to a named source. There is no "general knowledge" in between.
• Named-institution pricing or fabricated fees. We never claim what a specific bank or exchange charges, and we never invent a fee. Cost illustrations are typical ranges by category, never a named provider's quote.
• Filler built for search engines. No thin templated pages, no fake "frequently asked questions," no padding. A page ships only if it is genuinely useful.
• Advertising or paid placement. No ads, no affiliate links, no sponsored rankings, ever. Nobody can pay to change what a number says.

When we can't stand fully behind a number

We label it or leave it out — we never disguise it. Gold is shown as PAXG, a tokenized proxy, and labelled as such rather than presented as an official spot price. When live data is delayed, we say so and show the last confirmed time — never a "live" badge on a stale number. Where we genuinely have no history — tokenized gold, whose currency-rate provider gives us no series — we simply omit the chart rather than fabricate one. (Crypto is the exception: those assets carry a real 7-day trend from our market-data source, so we do show it.)

Corrections

If something here is wrong, we want to fix it. Email [email protected] with the page and the issue. We correct verified errors promptly, and where a correction touches a fact that carries a review date, we update that date so you can see it was checked.

Last reviewed: 30 August 2026 · reviewed quarterly.