MoneyHash Partners with Mastercard to Simplify Payments Across MENA Region

Editorial Team

Last updated 19-12-2025

3 min

MoneyHash partners with Mastercard to simplify payments for Middle Eastern and African merchants.

Merchants can use Mastercard’s Gateway via MoneyHash’s single API, reducing integration complexities.

This collaboration helps improve payment success rates and provides better transaction visibility.

Merchants gain smart routing capabilities and improved conversion rates through unified payment orchestration.

The partnership is a significant milestone for MoneyHash, enhancing merchant scalability and operational efficiency.

MoneyHash has struck a fresh collaboration with Mastercard that could make life a lot easier for merchants across the Middle East and Africa. The deal opens the door for businesses to plug into Mastercard’s Gateway through MoneyHash’s single API – a setup that cuts out the faff of multiple integrations and, frankly, the headaches that usually come with it. I’ve seen startups in the region wrestle with this kind of complexity before, and it often slows their growth at the worst possible moment.

Mastercard’s Gateway sits within its wider Merchant Cloud offering, but what’s notable here is that it’s now being made available through a payment orchestration platform in this part of the world. That means companies can connect through MoneyHash’s unified API instead of juggling different providers, which tends to feel a bit like spinning plates. With this new route, merchants can tidy up their operations, boost payment success rates and get proper visibility over what’s actually happening in their payment flows, all from one dashboard.

Mete Guney, Executive Vice President for Market Development at Mastercard in EEMEA, said the company is focused on working with fintech players that shake things up. He pointed out that shifting from messy direct integrations to a unified access point tackles a major pain point for merchants, and should help them smooth out the checkout experience for online shoppers. Spot on, really — anyone who’s abandoned a cart after a clunky payment process knows how costly those moments can be.

MoneyHash’s co-founder and CEO, Nader Abdelrazik, described the collaboration as a key milestone for the startup. He highlighted how direct access to Mastercard’s Gateway removes long-standing barriers that have made it harder for merchants to scale their digital operations. And believe it or not, that combination of MoneyHash’s orchestration tools with Mastercard’s infrastructure feels like one of those partnerships where both sides bring something genuinely useful to the table.

The setup goes beyond simply connecting systems. Merchants get flexibility to steer transactions through smart routing, whether through Mastercard Gateway or other providers. In practical terms, that means better conversion rates and potentially lower processing costs — something every founder I meet through Arageek’s work in the ecosystem is constantly chasing. The unified reporting and analytics should also help businesses make more informed decisions and tweak their payment strategies as they grow, while still keeping within Mastercard’s global security standards. I reckon that level of control will appeal especially to merchants expanding across borders, where payment failures can be a real thorn in the side… you know?

It’s still early days, but the move feels like a step toward a more joined-up payments landscape in the region — even if implementations are sometimes, well, a bit of a faff. And for startups trying to scale without tripping over complex infrastructure, collaborations like this can be chuffed-to-bits good news, even if the benefits take time to fully show.

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