Payrails is expanding its Middle East presence with a new regional headquarters in Dubai, located in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC). The move reinforces our long-term commitment to supporting businesses across the Middle East with modern payments and financial infrastructure built for scale.
DIFC is a leading global financial center with an internationally recognized legal and regulatory framework, supporting financial services, fintech, innovation, and cross-border commerce. Its ecosystem brings together financial institutions, technology providers, and enterprises operating across the Middle East and beyond. By establishing our regional headquarters in DIFC, Payrails joins a globally trusted environment designed to support businesses that require strong governance, transparency, and operational resilience as they grow.
Payrails was built to address the growing complexities faced by companies managing payments internationally. With payments at the core, Payrails provides a modular financial operating system that helps businesses manage the full payment lifecycle and the workflows that surround it: from routing across providers without lock-in, to consolidating fragmented payment data, automating reconciliation, enhancing token independence, managing disputes, monitoring hidden payment costs, and more.
Building on our existing partnerships with leading companies such as Careem, Majid Al Futtaim, and other enterprises across the region, we are deepening our commitment to helping businesses in the Middle East and North Africa to optimize growth and profitability through intelligent payments.
We are confident that Payrails will play a pivotal role in driving innovation and accelerating the digital transformation of financial services within the region. Payrails adds significant value to DIFC’s thriving community of FinTech innovators. As a globally recognised top 4 FinTech environment, DIFC is committed to nurturing holistic development of innovation-focused companies like Payrails, by providing access to capital, mentorship, and extensive opportunities.” - Salmaan Jaffery, Chief Business Development Officer, DIFC Authority
"Global businesses today need financial infrastructure that can adapt as quickly as they do. DIFC offers the innovation environment, institutional trust, and ecosystem depth required to support ambitious companies scaling across the Middle East and beyond. Establishing our regional headquarters in Dubai allows us to work more closely with both regional champions and global businesses operating in the region, while building on a foundation designed for long-term scale and reliability.” - Orkhan Abdullayev, CEO, Payrails
Being part of DIFC reflects Payrails’ continued focus on building financial infrastructure that supports teams responsible for managing growth across markets. By embedding itself within a globally recognized financial center, Payrails aims to support enterprises in managing payments and financial operations more effectively as their businesses expand.
About Payrails
Payrails helps global businesses use payments as the foundation for smarter, more scalable financial operations. With a modular platform spanning Payment Orchestration, Tokenization, Unified Analytics, Automated Reconciliation, Chargeback Management, and other interconnected workflows, Payrails enables enterprises to get more from their financial infrastructure through a collaborative, hands-on approach. Our track record has made Payrails a trusted partner for some of the world’s most recognized names including Puma, Vinted, Flix, Careem, inDrive, Preply, Just Eat Takeaway, and many more.
About Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC)
Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) is a leading global financial center for the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia. Established in 2004, DIFC operates under an independent legal and regulatory framework and is home to a growing ecosystem of financial institutions, fintechs, and professional services firms.
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