Emirates NBD ties up with Pine Labs to strengthen merchant acquiring solutions

Fintech firm Pine Labs has partnered with Emirates NBD, one of the leading banking groups in the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey (MENAT), to bring world class payment acquiring solution to the region.

As part of its growth plans, Emirates NBD is expanding its offering by leveraging Pine Labs' Credit+ platform to deliver merchant acquiring processing solutions for its corporate and institutional clients, initially in the UAE then across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

The expanded suite of solutions will empower the bank’s clients to improve their digital payment system for both online and instore payments.

“We have built many retail payment solutions in India and these are very relevant in global markets. RTP, Online, Contactless, Token management, NFC all services included here. Couldn’t be more excited with global Fintech,” said Amrish Rau, CEO of Pine Labs.

According to Rau, Pine Labs’ acquiring processing platform Credit+ is built for scale and is already live in more than 20 countries.

Emirates NBD has presence in 13 countries, serving over 9 million active customers. The Group has operations in the UAE, Egypt, India, Türkiye, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Singapore, the United Kingdom, Austria, Germany, Russia and Bahrain and representative offices in China and Indonesia with a total of 858 branches and 4,450 ATMs.