“Can a MENA e-commerce marketplace's in-house payments infrastructure become the dominant third-party payment gateway for merchants across the GCC?”
noon Payments originated as the in-house payments infrastructure built by noon — MENA's leading e-commerce marketplace — to handle its own transaction volume across UAE, KSA, and Egypt. The technology was productized and offered externally as a standalone payment gateway for third-party merchants. The company has steadily expanded its MENA regional footprint, obtained regulatory certifications in Saudi Arabia and achieved PCI DSS Level 1 compliance, while adding adjacent products like BNPL (via Tabby and Valu), tokenization, subscriptions, and installments to become the full-suite payments platform of record for MENA businesses.
noon Payments processes payments through noon Payments (self-operated) and Adyen.
noon Payments's lending and capital products are provided by Tabby and Valu.
The Embedded Finance Index 2026 maps 2 layers in noon Payments's stack: Payments / PSP (noon Payments (self-operated) and Adyen); Lending (Tabby, Valu, BNPL via Tabby (UAE, KSA) — split in 2/3/4/6 installments, BNPL via Valu (Egypt) and 1 other).
noon Payments is headquartered in Dubai, UAE.
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