Tap Payments and Yuno Partner to Support Enterprise Expansion Across MENA
A strategic partnership helping global enterprises enter and scale across MENA through compliant, locally licensed payment infrastructure.
At Web Summit Qatar, Tap Payments announced a strategic partnership with Yuno, a global payment orchestration platform for enterprise businesses.
This partnership is designed to support Yuno’s expansion into the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) by providing its enterprise merchants with compliant, locally licensed payment infrastructure.
Meet Yuno
Yuno is a global payment orchestration platform built for enterprises operating across multiple markets. It helps large businesses manage payment providers, methods, and routing through a single orchestration layer.
As Yuno expands into new regions, working with licensed local infrastructure partners is critical. This partnership with Tap Payments enables Yuno to support enterprise expansion into MENA with the regulatory coverage and local payment access the region requires.
Why Expansion in MENA is Complex
Entering MENA is not just about adding a payment gateway. Each country has its own regulators, licensing requirements, and domestic payment schemes. To operate properly, businesses must work with licensed providers and support local payment methods that customers already use.
Without this local setup, expansion can be slow, risky, and operationally heavy.
What This Partnership Enables
Through this collaboration, Yuno can extend its platform into the GCC by connecting its enterprise merchants to Tap Payments’ regulated infrastructure across Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar and Oman.
This gives them access to more than 20 local and global payment methods, all aligned with local regulatory frameworks. Instead of building separate integrations for each country, enterprises can use Tap Payments’ regional coverage through Yuno’s orchestration layer.
The result is faster market entry for enterprise businesses, lower operational complexity, and a clearer path for scaling across MENA.
Reflecting on the partnership, Ali Abulhasan, Co-Founder and CEO of Tap Payments, said:
“This partnership with Yuno reflects how we help global businesses expand into MENA with confidence. Expansion here requires the right licenses, trusted payment methods, and regulatory understanding in every market. By combining Tap’s regional infrastructure with Yuno’s orchestration layer, enterprises can scale across the region with clarity, control, and confidence.”
On Yuno’s behalf, Juan Pablo Ortega, CEO and Founder of Yuno, said:
“Partnering with Tap Payments aligns perfectly with Yuno’s mission to simplify global payments for enterprise merchants. With Tap’s unique regional licenses and local payment method expertise, we can offer our merchants a turnkey solution to expand across the GCC with unprecedented speed and compliance certainty.”
Enterprise Expansion Built on Local Infrastructure
Tap Payments holds full payment services licenses across key GCC markets and provides access to essential local payment networks such as mada in Saudi Arabia, KNET in Kuwait, and NAPS in Qatar. This allows international merchants using Yuno to operate in MENA with the same level of compliance and local relevance as domestic businesses.
Yuno connects enterprises to more than 1,000 payment methods and fraud tools globally through a unified API. Tap Payments supports over 120,000 businesses across MENA, from startups to large enterprises such as TikTok, Talabat, and Keeta.
Through Tap Payments, Yuno can offer its enterprise merchants compliant access to local payment methods, regulatory coverage, and market-ready infrastructure across the GCC.
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