Exclusive: Adyen expands to Middle East, opens an office in Dubai

Exclusive: Adyen expands to Middle East, opens an office in Dubai

Adyen, the Amsterdam headquartered global payments company that allows businesses to accept online and point-of-sale payments, is expanding to the Middle East, it told MENAbytes today. It has opened an office in Dubai to run Middle East operations and will initially support local payment methods in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar, and Egypt.

Pieter van der Does, the co-founder and CEO of Adyen, speaking to us about their decision to expand to the Middle East said that they always have discussions with their merchants to learn about the next regions (and markets) they're going to and use that as an input to decide on their expansion plans.

“We would've liked to be in the Middle East a couple of years ago but we also wanted to have