UAE PDPL + CBUAE Payments Regulation · English & Arabic

Compliance speaks two languages.
Ask it in yours.

The UAE Personal Data Protection Law (Federal Decree-Law 45/2021) and the Central Bank's Retail Payment Services & Card Schemes Regulation (C 15/2021), official texts, article by article, in both languages. The Arabic text is the legally authoritative version - CBUAE regulations say so explicitly - while English is the working translation everyone actually reads. Results always come back as the EN/AR article pair, so what you read and what binds you sit side by side. Runs on my own server, costs you zero tokens.

Lead with:
Try: consent · cross-border transfer · بيانات الدفع (AR) · penalties (DE)
Type your question in ANY language - English, Arabic, Hindi, Urdu, German… the search is multilingual by design and lands on the right article either way.

Wire it straight into your Claude

The same corpus is served as an MCP connector - the protocol Claude uses to reach external tools. Add it once and Claude can search these regulations, fetch exact articles, and compare the English and Arabic wording of any provision - with citations, in the middle of whatever you're already working on. Read-only, public regulatory text, nothing to sign up for.

Works on free Claude accounts - you can create a new account using just email to test this. Not the speed champion, but hey it's free.

  1. In claude.ai: Settings → Connectors → Add (upper right corner) → …Add custom connector
  2. Fill in the four values below - the Name matters, it's how you'll refer to the tool in chat
  3. Click Connect, then Authorize
  4. Ask Claude: "use the uae tool, does UAE law allow storing cardholder data with a processor outside the UAE?" and watch it cite PDPL and RPSCS articles back at you
Connection details ▶
Name
uae
URL
https://uae.might-work.today/mcp
OAuth Client ID
u7QwXk2nRv9mLp4cTz8bHd3fJg6sYe1a-uae
OAuth Client Secret
Rz8kWn3qLx7vTp2mYc9bEd4fHj6gNs1aQw5uKr0tZx8cVb3nMf7dJh2gPl6s-uae
Additional tip ▶

After authorizing, go back to Settings → Connectors, click the uae connector, and switch "Needs approval" to "Always allow" - otherwise Claude asks you to approve every single search. One switch, much smoother conversation. For model choice, Sonnet with medium thinking handles the tool calls well.

Screenshot of Claude using the tool ▶
Claude answering a UAE payments compliance question with PDPL and RPSCS article citations via the MCP connector

Why this exists

I build automation over regulated workflows - payments, healthcare, legal. This demo is the same architecture I run in production for a legal research system, cloned onto a new instance: parse the official sources, keep article-level structure, serve the result to both humans (this page) and AI agents (the connector). The multilingual search uses BGE-M3, an open-source embedding model running on this server - the reason a question asked in any language lands on the right Arabic article without a translation step.

If your documents are bilingual and your compliance is real, this pattern scales to your rulebook too. More of my work →