Visa Acceptance Platform Enables Jaywan For Online Payments in the UAE

Dubai, UAE – Visa, a world leader in digital payments, today announced that the Visa Acceptance Platform now supports the acceptance of eligible Jaywan debit, credit and prepaid cards for online transactions in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), enabling participating merchants, acquirers and payment service providers using the platform to offer Jaywan as a payment option.

Jaywan is the UAE's domestic card scheme, operated by Al Etihad Payments. By making Jaywan available on the Visa Acceptance Platform, participating merchants, acquirers and payment service providers can support domestic card payments across a range of digital commerce use cases.

The Visa Acceptance Platform brings together payment acceptance, authentication, and tokenization capabilities through a single platform. It helps merchants, acquirers, and payment service providers accept and manage digital payments, supporting  use cases such as card-on-file payments, recurring transactions and digital wallets.

In March 2025, Al Etihad Payments and Visa announced an agreement to jointly introduce "Jaywan-Visa" debit and prepaid cards in the UAE, enabling cardholders to use their cards globally through Visa's network. Today, Visa is expanding acceptance of Jaywan cards through the Visa Acceptance Platform, which will support Jaywan Card-on-File network tokenization through Token Management Service (TMS). This will help merchants, acquirers and payment service providers securely support recurring payments, subscriptions and other digital commerce use cases.

Andrea Cianchetti, Chief Products Officer, Al Etihad Payments said, “We are very excited to announce that Jaywan is now accepted through the Visa Acceptance Platform, which materially increases online acceptance for Jaywan cards in the UAE. Jaywan was established to give the UAE a national card scheme with the scale, acceptance, and capabilities the country’s payment needs require. Enabling Jaywan on the Visa Acceptance Platform embeds the UAE’s domestic card scheme further into the infrastructure supporting digital commerce. It expands the ability of merchants, acquirers, and payment service providers to accept Jaywan online and adds capabilities such as card-on-file and recurring payments. That takes us closer to making Jaywan a natural part of how consumers pay and businesses accept payments across the UAE.”

Fadi Moukaddem, Visa’s Regional General Manager for UAE, Kuwait and Qatar, said: " We are proud to continue to build on our collaboration with Al Etihad Payments by making Jaywan available on the Visa Acceptance Platform. By enabling participating  merchants, acquirers and payment service providers to support Jaywan through the platform, we are helping  expand payment choice while delivering the secure, reliable and seamless experiences consumers and businesses expect. "