Applicable for Merchants and Master Merchants/Payment Facilitators
List A - UOB prohibited industries and products for all schemes
- Companies not registered in Singapore
- Contraband tobacco
- Counterfeit or Intellectual Property (IP) Infringing Goods and Services
- Defence-related business, military and police deal
- Illegal / counterfeit pharmaceuticals
- Illegal or Miscoded online gambling
- Illegal supplements / nutraceuticals
- Money lending business
- Moneylenders that conduct gambling related activities/ finance gambling related activities
- Narcotics and related accessories
- New merchants (regardless of business type) requesting for temporary terminals
- Online pharmacy
- Pawn Shop and Services
- Pornographic content and services
- Pyramid schemes and Multi-Level Marketing (MLM)
- Remittance agent or money changer
- Unregulated law firm or accounting company
- Weapons of all types (including but not limited to daggers, firearms and accessories), replica weapons, ammunitions and explosives)
- Any other illegal products or services
List B - Alipay Prohibited Products
For Alipay prohibited products, please click here and refer to Annex I: Lists of Prohibited and Restricted Products.
List C - WeChat Pay Prohibited Products
For WeChat Pay prohibited products, please click here and refer to Section 2. Forbidden Categories.
Applicable for Master Merchants/Payment Facilitators only
(The following are the additional items on top of all Lists mentioned above)
- Aggregating Master Merchants/Payment Facilitators
- Marketplaces
- Merchants on MATCHTM (Mastercard Alert To Control High-risk Merchants)
- Sale of any goods or services that purports to test, cure, treat, or prevent COVID-19
- Staged Digital Wallets