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Empowering Payments

Future-ready, innovative digital payment solutions for secure, convenient, and seamless payments across the UAE.

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19 May 2025
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Jaywan: UAE's new domestic card payment scheme; all your questions answered

From debit to credit to gift card, Jaywan is useful for travel and a host of other purposes

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25 February 2025
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Transforming UAE's digital economy with innovative payment solutions.

Al Etihad Payments is at the helm of revolutionizing the nation’s payment landscape

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27 February 2025
3 months ago
Aani instant payments platform reaches 1.5 million users in UAE.

Aani offers real-time money transfers using mobile numbers, email addresses and QR codes. Photo: Al Etihad Payments

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Our payment solutions power the UAE’s growth

As a leading payments entity, Al Etihad Payments is dedicated to developing and operating world-class infrastructure, standards, and solutions for the UAE. Al Etihad Payments is a subsidiary of the Central Bank of the UAE, strongly supported by the UAE Government .

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EmpoweringInstant Payments

Aani is a payments platform that allows customers to transfer funds up to AED 50,000 immediately and conveniently, on a 24*7 basis. It offers innovative services such as Proxy Payments, QR-code-based payments, Request to Pay, and split payments.

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Other Services

Al Etihad Payments, a subsidiary of the Central Bank of the UAE, offers additional services to support customers' digital transactions across the UAE.

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UAESWITCH

UAESWITCH links the ATM networks of all banks in the UAE, enabling all customers to safely and securely use any ATM in the UAE. UAESWITCH is also available to customers across GCC countries, where a GCCNET logo is displayed. UAESWITCH also processes domestic Point of Sale (POS) debit card transactions.

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Jaywan

Al Etihad Payments is launching the UAE's own Jaywan, ushering a new era of card payments in the UAE with localisation of debit card transactions, ensuring that payment-related data is processed and stored in the UAE. Through implementation of the Jaywan, Al Etihad Payments will help minimise economic cost of electronic payments to benefit end users, merchants, and licensed financial institutions.

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UAEWPS

UAE Wages Protection System (UAEWPS) provides a safe, secure, efficient and robust mechanism to streamline the timely payment of wages to employees by their employers.

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Learn more about Al Etihad Payments and our innovative digital payment services.

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14 April 2025
UAE links Jaywan card scheme to global networks in major payments push

Starting in the second half of 2025, UAE financial institutions will issue co-badged Jaywan cards.

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14 April 2025
Al Etihad Payments enters co-badging agreements on card schemes

Al Etihad Payments has signed co-badging agreements with global card schemes, including Discover, Mastercard, UnionPay, and Visa.

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14 April 2025
Al Etihad Payments signs co-badging deals with international card schemes
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