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What is the ruling on working for money transfer companies that also deal with traveler's checks and currency exchange?

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Source: FtawySummarized from the full answer at Ftawy · reviewed Sep 2, 20261 min readAlso available in العربية
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Working for money transfer companies is permissible in principle. Money transfers are of two types: internal (agency for a fee) and external (agency and exchange). As for traveler's checks, they are a permissible banking service if they adhere to Sharia guidelines, and they include agency and exchange. The bank is allowed to take a known commission for them. A company selling traveler's checks is permissible if the check is certified and sold in the same currency without disparity, or in two different currencies with permissible disparity. It is permissible to authorize the company to collect the value of the check for a known fee, provided that Sharia guidelines are observed.

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