Bank of Mauritius Template on Fees Charges and Commission

* Last updated – 30 April 2020

Interest Rates (per annum)
Deposits
Credit Facilities
General Services

	Individuals	Corporate	Others
Deposits
Savings	0% - 0.60%	N/A	N/A
Call	N/A	Rates available on request	N/A
Term (MUR)	0.30% - 1.95%	Rates available on request	N/A
Term (FCY)	Rates available on request	Rates available on request	N/A
Credit Facilities (MUR)
Prime Lending Rate (PLR)	5.15%	5.15%	N/A
Credit cards
MasterCard/ VISA Classic cards	1.70% Monthly	1.70% Monthly	N/A
MasterCard/VISA Gold cards	1.70% Monthly	1.70% Monthly	N/A
VISA Platinum cards	1.70% Monthly	1.70% Monthly	N/A
MasterCard Corporate Card	N/A	1.70% Monthly	N/A
Other credit facilities - margin over PLR
Housing Loan*	As from PLR - 1.50% to PLR - 0.90%	N/A	N/A
Car Loan*	As from PLR - 0.76% to PLR + 1.00%	Case to Case	N/A
Educational loan*	As from PLR to PLR + 1.25%	N/A	N/A
Personal loan*	As from PLR + 2.00% to + 5.75%)	N/A	N/A
Personal loan against deposit	Fixed deposit Rate + Margin	N/A	N/A
Credit Facilities (FCY)
Margin over LIBOR	As per arrangement	As per arrangement	N/A

	Individuals	Corporate	Others
Savings Account
Minimum account opening balance
Savings Account	500	N/A	N/A
SMART Account	200 for SCS and 500 for SMART	N/A	N/A
Savings Account with cheque book	5,000	N/A	N/A
Senior Prime Account	10,000	N/A	N/A
MoneyGrow Account	50,000	N/A	N/A
Minimum credit balance to earn interest
Savings Account	3,000	N/A	N/A
SMART Account	3,000	N/A	N/A
Savings Account with cheque book	10,000	N/A	N/A
Senior Prime Account	25,000	N/A	N/A
Pre-Retirement Savings Account* This product is no longer being offered. The present condition is applicable only for accounts opened prior 16th May 2017.	5,000	N/A	N/A
MoneyGrow Account	100,000	N/A	N/A
Monthly service charge if credit balance falls below minimum balance	N/A	N/A	N/A
Current Account
Minimum account opening balance	5,000	5,000	N/A
Cost of cheque book
25 Leaves	MUR 6/-per leaf	MUR 6/-per leaf	N/A
50 Leaves	MUR 6/-per leaf	MUR 6/-per leaf	N/A
100 Leaves	MUR 6/-per leaf	MUR 6/-per leaf	N/A
Maintenance fees (Charged every 6 months – End of May and November)
No of transactions 1- 50	140	140	N/A
No of transactions 51- 100	290	290	N/A
No of transactions 101- 150	440	440	N/A
No of transactions 151- 200	590	590	N/A
No of transactions 201- 250	740	740	N/A
No of transactions (above 250)	890	890	N/A
Call Deposit Account
Minimum Balance	N/A	N/A	N/A
Minimum Credit Balance to earn Interest	N/A	10,000,000	N/A
Monthly Service Charge	N/A	N/A	N/A
Term Deposits (MUR)
Minimum amount	10,000	50,000	N/A
Deposit withdrawn before maturity	The rate applicable will be the prevailing rate for the period for which the deposit has been actually held with the bank LESS 1% penalty, or savings rate whichever is higher. However, any such request for encashment before maturity will be solely at the Bank's discretion.	The rate applicable will be the prevailing rate for the period for which the deposit has been actually held with the Bank LESS 1% penalty. However, any such request for encashment before maturity will be solely at the Bank's discretion.	N/A
Term Deposits (FCY)
Minimum amount
Deposit in EUR	5,000 EUR	5,000 EUR	N/A
Deposit in GBP	5,000 GBP	5,000 GBP	N/A
Deposit in USD	5,000 USD	5,000 USD	N/A
Deposit in Other applicable currencies	5,000	5,000	N/A
Deposit withdrawn before maturity	The rate applicable will be the prevailing rate for the period for which the deposit has been actually held with the Bank LESS 1% penalty. Note: However, any such request for encashment before maturity will be solely at the bank's discretion.	The rate applicable will be the prevailing rate for the period for which the deposit has been actually held with the Bank LESS 1% penalty. Note: However, any such request for encashment before maturity will be solely at the bank's discretion.	N/A
Foreign Currency Account
Minimum amount
Deposit in EUR	2,000	2,000	N/A
Deposit in GBP	2,000	2,000	N/A
Deposit in USD	2,000	2,000	N/A
Minimum credit balance to earn interest	5,000 (In Applicable Currencies)	5,000 (In Applicable Currencies)	N/A
Service fee on Account	1 Unit as per currency per month if balance is below 500	1 Unit as per currency per month if balance is below 500	N/A

	Individuals	Corporate	Others
Credit Cards
Annual fee
MasterCard/ VISA Classic cards	230	230	N/A
MasterCard/VISA Gold cards	862.50	862.50	N/A
VISA Platinum cards	1092.50	1092.50	N/A
MasterCard Corporate Card	N/A	862.50	N/A
Replacement of lost/ stolen cards
MasterCard/ VISA Classic cards	100	100	N/A
MasterCard/VISA Gold cards	200	200	N/A
VISA Platinum cards	500	500	N/A
MasterCard Corporate Card	N/A	200	N/A
Cash Advance Fee	2% of amount withdrawn – Min MUR 100	2% of amount withdrawn – Min MUR 100	N/A
Over limit Fee	150	150	N/A
Loans and Advances
Processing fee (for loan approved but not availed)	1,000	1,000	N/A
Processing and Handling fees	1% per annum of facility amount subject to a minimum of MUR 1,000	1% per annum of facility amount subject to a minimum of MUR 2,500 or as per loan/overdraft agreement	N/A
Management fee	400 in July	400 in July	N/A
Commitment fee	1% of any undrawn balance	1% of any undrawn balance	N/A
Early redemption/prepayment fee	Flat 1% on amount paid in advance for non BPA loans	Flat 1% on amount paid in advance for non BPA loans	N/A
Valuation Survey & Report fee			N/A
Fees for valuation done by approved valuer	Valuer's fee plus 200 – Minimum 4,200	Valuer's fee plus 2,000 – Minimum 5,000	N/A
Legal charges for creation of security documents for banking facilities			N/A
Fixed / Floating charges	N/A	N/A	N/A
Gages sans deplacement	N/A	N/A	N/A
Erasure of charges	200 + Govt Fees	200 + Govt Fees	N/A
Guarantees
Performance bonds	1.5% p.a. for first MUR 5.0 M (Min MUR 600) plus 1% p.a. over the MUR 5.0 M	1.5% p.a. for first MUR 5.0 M (Min MUR 600) plus 1% p.a. over the MUR 5.0 M	N/A
Tender/ bid bonds	Flat 1.0% for first 6 months (Min MUR 600) & 0.25% for each period of 3 months (Minimum MUR 600)	Flat 1.0% for first 6 months (Min MUR 600) & 0.25% for each period of 3 months (Minimum MUR 600)	N/A
Advance payment bonds	2% p.a. (Min 750)	2% p.a. (Min 750)	N/A
Retention money bonds/ guarantees	2% p.a (Minimum 750/-)	2% p.a (Minimum 750/-)	N/A
Shipping guarantee	MUR 600- for the first month & MUR 300- monthly thereafter until receipt of original Bill of lading /Airway bill	MUR 600- for the first month & MUR 300- monthly thereafter until receipt of original Bill of lading /Airway bill	N/A

	Individuals	Corporate	Others
Treasury Bills
Account opening Fee	250	250	N/A
Transaction Fee	0.25%, Maximum 2,500	250	N/A
Debit Card
Annual Fee	N/A	N/A	N/A
Replacement of lost/ stolen cards	115	115	N/A
Withdrawals			N/A
Bank's ATM	Free	Free	N/A
Other bank's ATM	75	75	N/A
Abroad	75	75	N/A
Others
Telegraphic transfer
Incoming	150	150	N/A
Outgoing	225 + any overseas bank charges	225 + any overseas bank charges	N/A
MACSS facility	125	125	N/A
Audit confirmation certificate	1000	1000	N/A
Testimonial/Banker's reference fee	600	600	N/A
Letter of reference	600	600	N/A
Payroll fee	N/A	N/A	N/A
Internet Banking fee	Free	Rs 300/per month for first 3 users view only	N/A
Duplicate statement of account	Rs 25 per sheet Free for e-correspondence customers	Rs 25 per sheet Free for e-correspondence customers	N/A
Standing Instructions
Internal transfer	10	10	N/A
Transfer to other banks	30	30	N/A
Direct Debit	6	6	N/A
Purchase of foreign cheques/bank drafts	Case to Case	Case to Case	N/A
Office Cheque Issuance	150	150	N/A
Cheque book facility	Refer to Cost of Cheques - Section 5	Refer to Cost of Cheques - Section 5	N/A
Cheque Returned
Inward	350 for lack of funds	350 for lack of funds	N/A
Outward	50 per cheque	50 per cheque	N/A
Stop Payment Orders	100/- additional Rs 25/- per cheque if above 10 cheques. 75/- for request made through Mobile Application.	100/- additional Rs 25/- per cheque if above 10 cheques. 75/- for request made through Mobile Application.	N/A
Safe Deposit Lockers (size - inches)
Small (3.5 x 21 x 4.5)	1 Year - 1,100 + VAT 2 Year - 1,650 + VAT 3 Years - 2,300 + VAT	1 Year - 1,100 + VAT 2 Year - 1,650 + VAT 3 Years - 2,300 + VAT	N/A
Medium (4.5 x 21 x 4.5)	1 Year - 2,200 + VAT 2 Year - 3,300 + VAT 3 Years - 4,400 + VAT	1 Year - 2,200 + VAT 2 Year - 3,300 + VAT 3 Years - 4,400 + VAT	N/A
Large (2.5 x 21 x 9.25)	1 Year - 3,300 + VAT 2 Year - 4,950 + VAT 3 Years - 6,600 + VAT	1 Year - 3,300 + VAT 2 Year - 4,950 + VAT 3 Years - 6,600 + VAT	N/A
Extra Large (9.25 x 21 x 9.25)	1 Year - 4,400 + VAT 2 Year - 8,800 + VAT 3 Years - 8,800 + VAT	1 Year - 4,400 + VAT 2 Year - 8,800 + VAT 3 Years - 8,800 + VAT	N/A
Night Safe	N/A	N/A	N/A

Mr RAMPERSAD Ravin
Non-Executive Director

Mr Ravin Rampersad is currently the CEO of SME Mauritius, having spent a major part of his career at senior management positions in the private sector both locally and abroad. He has curated experience in the FMCG sector and has successfully evolved in areas of Operations, Marketing, Logistics and Business development mostly on behalf of multinationals.

Mr Rampersad is also well versed in Strategic development, Business Restructuring and International Business, and as part of the senior Management teams, has been Member of the Board of Directors of several private sector companies.

Ravin Rampersad holds a Master in Business Administration, a Master in Marketing and Innovation, is a Chartered Manager, a Chartered Marketer and a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute, UK.

Mr CODABUX Javed
Independent Director

Mr Javed Codabux is an Accountant, and is currently working as Accountant and Manager at D & S LINES LTD (Accredited Agent for Jubilee Insurance). Prior that, he has worked in the accounting departments of African Reinsurance Corporation, Lamco International Insurance and Cheribinny Ltd.

Mr Codabux holds an Executive Master in Business Administration {EMBA} with First Class(Hons) from EIILM University, Sikkim, INDIA and completed his Level 2 ACCA qualifications. He also holds a Higher National Diploma in Business Finance, BTEC, EDexcel Level 5 - EDEXCEL UNIVERSITY (U.K) under the programme of Resource Development International(RDI) U.K.

He is a member of the Mauritius Institute of Directors.

Mr. Codabux has served as Board member on ex Mauritius Post and Cooperative Bank from March 2015 to January 2016.

Mr NICOLAS Jean Marie Cyril
Independent Director

Mr. Nicolas holds a Diploma in Marketing Management, South Africa and a Diploma in Human Resource, South Africa. He is a Registered trainer with MQA since 1988 and President of the Indian Ocean Marketing Association. He is also a Director of Effective Coaching Ltd and has recently appointed as Consultant for the JSI Johannesburg School of Investment.

Mr NILAMBER Anoop
Non-Executive Director

Mr. Nilamber is currently the CEO at Mauritius Duty Free Paradise Co Ltd, he has also been an Economic Advisor at the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development. Prior to joining the government, Anoop was a Corporate Finance Banker at HSBC in France and at the Mauritius Commercial Bank. In Paris, Anoop was also a part-time lecturer in Finance at Universite Pantheon Assas (Paris II) where he graduated in Banking and Finance.

Mr GOKHOOL Ashvin Jain
Independent Director

Mr. Gokhool is a Fellow Member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (UK), a Certified Financial Consultant (USA), an Associate Member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (USA), a Member of the Mauritius Institute of Public Accountants (MIPA) and a Founder Member of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Rwanda (ICPAR). He is a qualified stockbroker from the Stock Exchange Commission (Australia) and also holds an Auditor’s Licence from the Financial Reporting Council (FRC).

Mr. Gokhool is the Managing Partner at KSi (Mauritius), Public Accountants & Business Advisers and Managing Director of AG Consultants Ltd, Financial and Management Consultants. Both are member firms of Morison KSi (UK). Since 1987, he successively worked for Deloitte (Mauritius), PricewaterhouseCoopers (Mauritius, Paris and London), Mauritius Tourism Promotion Authority, Tourism Authority, Tourism Employees Welfare Fund. He also served as Advisor to the Minister of Agriculture, Food Technology & Natural Resources and the Minister of Tourism and Leisure. He is an Independent Financial Analyst and worked with the Restructuring Working Group of the National Resilience Fund at The State Investment Corporation.

Presently, he acts as the Chairman of the National Transport Corporation Board. He is an independent non-executive Director at the Bank as well as the Chairman of the Audit Committee.

Mr SOOKUN Gooroodeo
Chairman & Independent Director

Mr Gooroodeo (Mahen) Sookun FCCA, MBA, CSK

Mr. Sookun is a fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and holds an MBA (Finance) from the University of Leicester (UK). He has served in private and public companies during the last thirty years as a Corporate Finance Executive, in Mauritius and across Africa, in diverse sectors such as Public Utilities, Agriculture, Textile, Real Estate and Mining.

In Mauritius, Mr Sookun has served as a Finance Executive at the Central Electricity Board, FUEL Sugar Estate, Palmar Textiles Ltd, and as Head of Finance of the largest Real Estate Development Company, Anahita Estates Ltd. Currently Mr Sookun is the Executive Director of SB ProConsult Ltd, a Chartered Certified Accountancy Firm, which provides accounting tax and advisory services to a range of local and international clients.

The international career of Mr Sookun started in 1999 as a Finance Executive in Sena Sugar Estates in Mozambique (project developed by a Mauritian Consortium). From 2005 to 2007, he was the Group Finance Manager of Titanium Resources Limited, a company involved in Mineral Resources Development and Mining in Sierra Leone and listed on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange. From 2008 to 2013, he was also the Director, CFO and Secretary of Diamond Fields International Ltd, a public company listed in Toronto having mining assets across Africa. From 2012 to 2017, Mr Sookun has also served as Director and CFO of an Australian (ASX) listed company involved in Mineral Sands Exploration investments in Africa

Mr MUNGAR Premchand
Chief Executive

Mr Premchand Mungar is a banker with 36 years of experience at managerial and executive levels of commercial, offshore, development banking as well as of financial services.

He has worked with the African Trade and Development Bank (TDB) Group, a multilateral financial institution and the financial arm of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), based in Nairobi, Kenya for 16 years where he was engaged in institutional transformation, corporate strategy and policy formulation, and also formed part of TDB’s executive committees. In 2017, he ended his career at the Group as the General Counsel and Senior Director, but continued as a Senior Adviser to the TDB Group after his return to Mauritius. Prior to that, Mr Mungar was with the SBM and State Bank International in Mauritius.

Since December 2017, he serves as an independent non-executive member of the Board of Directors of the Financial Services Commission Mauritius, where he is also the Chairperson of the Audit and Risk Committee.

Mr Mungar holds a Masters Degree in Finance and Financial Law from the University of London, and an LLB from the University of Mauritius. He is a qualified attorney and has been a member of the Mauritius Law Society since 1995.

He has been credited with several commendations and was awarded the 2016 President’s Excellence Award in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the affairs of the TDB Group.

Mr SOKAPPADU Ramanaidoo
Non Executive Director

Mr Ramanaidoo Sokappadu, currently Acting Director, Economy and Finance at the Ministry of Finance, Economic Planning and Development, has been working in the civil service for nearly 37 years. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics, Mathematics and Statistics.
He has in the past worked as short term consultant for the Commonwealth Secretariat and the World Bank. He has been a Board director on several parastatal bodies and companies. In addition, he has represented Mauritius in several international conferences and meetings, both locally and abroad.

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Mr RAMPERSAD Ravin
Non-Executive Director

Mr CODABUX Javed
Independent Director

Mr NICOLAS Jean Marie Cyril
Independent Director

Mr NILAMBER Anoop
Non-Executive Director

Mr GOKHOOL Ashvin Jain
Independent Director

Mr SOOKUN Gooroodeo
Chairman & Independent Director

Mr MUNGAR Premchand
Chief Executive

Mr SOKAPPADU Ramanaidoo
Non Executive Director

Bank of Mauritius Template on Fees Charges and Commission

Mr RAMPERSAD Ravin Non-Executive Director

Mr CODABUX Javed Independent Director

Mr NICOLAS Jean Marie Cyril Independent Director

Mr NILAMBER AnoopNon-Executive Director

Mr GOKHOOL Ashvin Jain Independent Director

Mr SOOKUN Gooroodeo Chairman & Independent Director

Mr MUNGAR PremchandChief Executive

Mr SOKAPPADU Ramanaidoo Non Executive Director

Mr RAMPERSAD Ravin
Non-Executive Director

Mr CODABUX Javed
Independent Director

Mr NICOLAS Jean Marie Cyril
Independent Director

Mr NILAMBER Anoop
Non-Executive Director

Mr GOKHOOL Ashvin Jain
Independent Director

Mr SOOKUN Gooroodeo
Chairman & Independent Director

Mr MUNGAR Premchand
Chief Executive

Mr SOKAPPADU Ramanaidoo
Non Executive Director