United Arab Emirates · Payments & e-money
Adyen MEA FZ- LLC
Legal name in the LEI recordآدين إم إي إيه منطقة حرة - ذ.م.م
The register name differs from the legal name in GLEIF. This can follow a rename. Treat the LEI match as indicative.
Adyen MEA FZ-LLC is a free zone limited liability company in Dubai. The Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) authorises and supervises it as a Retail Payment Services Category II licensee, licence number 08.01.02.035.2026.02. It is a wholly owned affiliate of Adyen N.V. of Amsterdam, and its direct parent is Adyen International B.V. It provides Adyen's payment processing and local settlement services to businesses in the UAE. Adyen announced the licence in June 2026 and says it has operated in the UAE since 2020.
Licences and registrations
Held by Adyen MEA FZ- LLC (LEI 2549007CV4AYJ06W9R44). 1 entry on 1 of the 22 tracked registers, retrieved 24 September 2026.
| Register | Licence | Number | Jurisdiction | Status | Registered | Ends | Activities | Register entry |
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| CBUAE Register of Licensed Financial Institutions - Retail Payment ServicesCentral Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) | Retail Payment ServicesPayment InstitutionGLEIF legal name: آدين إم إي إيه منطقة حرة - ذ.م.م | 08.01.02.035.2026.02 | United Arab Emirates | Active | — | — |
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- Each licence applies in the country of the regulator that granted it.
- Registers are tracked in 37 countries. Licences granted elsewhere are not recorded here.
Swift network
Swift’s ISO 9362 BIC directory
Holds no BIC in Swift’s directory.
Its LEI is not mapped to a BIC in the Swift and GLEIF BIC-to-LEI relationship file.
Overview
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
Customers
Not published
Employees
Not published
Ownership
Group subsidiary
Adyen International B.V.
Firm type
Merchant acquiring and processing
Trades as Adyen
- Ownership
- Adyen N.V. owns the firm through Adyen International B.V., according to the entity's LEI record, and Adyen lists it as a wholly owned affiliate.
- Direct parent
- Adyen International B.V. ↗, Netherlands
- Ultimate owner
- Adyen N.V., Netherlands
- Head office
- Arjaan Office Tower, Al Sufouh 2, Level 13 - Units 1303 to 1308, Dubai Media City, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Online
- Websites & references
- adyen.com ↗
docs.adyen.com ↗ developer documentation (group)
status.adyen.com ↗ service status page (group)
investors.adyen.com ↗ investor relations (group)
Wikipedia ↗ group article - Official social accounts
- LinkedIn ↗ · X ↗ · Facebook ↗
Sources · 9 pages consulted
- centralbank.ae/media/hw0lreyi/cb-register-august-2026.pdf
- adyen.com/licenses/emea
- adyen.com/licenses
- adyen.com/legal/list-of-adyen-subprocessors
- adyen.com/legal/adyen-terms-and-conditions
- tradingview.com/news/reuters.com,2026-06-29:newsml_Zaw9HvQdS:0-zawya-uae-central-bank-licenses-adyen-for-
- gulftech-news.com/en/2026/06/29/uae-central-bank-licenses-adyen-for-expanded-operational-capabilities/
- businesstoday.me/money/uae-central-bank-licenses-adyen-for-expanded-operational-capabilities/
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adyen
Authorisation
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- Operates under
- Its own licences
The CBUAE authorises and supervises the firm as a Retail Payment Services Category II licensee under the Retail Payment Services and Card Schemes Regulation. Adyen says it also holds a commercial licence in the Dubai Internet City Free Zone.
| Authority | Licence or registration | Number | Held | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) United Arab Emirates | Retail Payment Services Licence (Category II) | 08.01.02.035.2026.02 | In its own name | Active | centralbank.ae ↗ |
| Dubai Internet City Free Zone United Arab Emirates | Commercial licence | — | In its own name | Active | adyen.com ↗ |
Licences and registrations the research found, at home and abroad, as the firm and its regulators publish them. The Licences and registrations card shows the entries on the registers the directory tracks.
Products and markets
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
It provides Adyen's payment processing, local settlement and related services to businesses in the UAE. Adyen names Careem, Noon and Ziina among its UAE customers.
It serves local and international businesses operating in the UAE under its CBUAE licence.
- Sells to
- Enterprises · Platforms and marketplaces
- Serves customers in
- United Arab Emirates
Leadership
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- Executive
- Daumantas Grigaravicius Head of Middle East, Adyen
- Compliance / MLRO
- Mariëtte Swart Chief Risk and Compliance Officer, Adyen (group)
Recent events
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
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Licence
The CBUAE granted the firm a Retail Payment Services Category II licence, which Adyen announced on 29 June 2026.
adyen.com ↗
Compliance-relevant events of the last three years, newest first: fines and enforcement, investigations, security incidents, licence changes, funding rounds, acquisitions and leadership changes. Each links to its source.
Identifiers
- Licence no. · CBUAE-RPS
- 08.01.02.035.2026.02
- BIC
- Holds no BIC in Swift’s directory
- How the LEI was matched
- Matched by Elucidate to GLEIF on name, country and address
- GLEIF legal name
- آدين إم إي إيه منطقة حرة - ذ.م.م
- Elucidate firm ID
- 841eb30910f0
Profile
- Type
- Payments & e-moneyPayment institutions, e-money and stored-value issuers, and account-information providers. Licensed under payment-services law (e.g. PSD2 in the EU and UK, the Payment Services Act in Singapore). Taken from the licences on the tracked registers.
- Regulation
- Prudential licenceAuthorised with capital, safeguarding and conduct requirements, e.g. an authorised payment or e-money institution in the EU or UK, a major payment institution in Singapore, or a MiCA crypto-asset service provider.
- Main licence class
- Payment Institution
- Activities
- Payment services
- Licensed in
- United Arab Emirates · Middle East & North Africa
- First registered
- Not published
Types come from Swift’s BIC classification, the licences on the 22 tracked registers, and the ECB and FSB bank lists. Most banks outside the euro area appear as financial institutions, because their supervisors’ registers are not tracked yet.
Ownership and group
GLEIF relationship records
- Direct parent
- Adyen International B.V. · Netherlands254900GZI5YQV9VVOW75 ↗
- Ultimate parent
- Adyen N.V. · Netherlands724500973ODKK3IFQ447 ↗
The Adyen N.V. group has 9 institutions in the directory, in 9 countries: 5 hold a BIC and 4 do not.
Including Adyen N.V., Adyen N.V. (London Branch), Adyen N.V. (San Francisco Branch), Adyen N.V. - French Branch, Adyen N.V. - German Branch.
See the Adyen N.V. group →Group membership follows the accounting-consolidation relationships reported to GLEIF. It does not show ownership shares or control.
Addresses
- Address on the register
- Dubai
- Country
- United Arab Emirates
ISO 20022 identification
As an agent in a Swift cross-border payment message (CBPR+)
This institution holds no BIC. A CBPR+ message identifies it by name and postal address, and may add its LEI or a clearing code.
- Identified by
- Name and postal address, with its LEI
- Postal address
- Structured: town and country
<FinInstnId>
<LEI>2549007CV4AYJ06W9R44</LEI>
<Nm>Adyen MEA FZ- LLC</Nm>
<PstlAdr>
<TwnNm>Dubai</TwnNm>
<Ctry>AE</Ctry>
</PstlAdr>
</FinInstnId>CBPR+ identifies the instructing and instructed agents by BIC only. An institution without a BIC can be the debtor, creditor or an intermediary agent.
The values are as published by the register. Check them against your own records before use.
Sources & method
Register entries come from the public registers of financial regulators, standardised into one taxonomy. LEIs are matched through GLEIF, and a BIC is linked only through a shared LEI.
An institution missing from these registers is not necessarily unregulated.
Register entries are not matched against the OFAC or EU sanctions lists. Where the legal entity also holds a BIC, the matches for that BIC are on its page. Always screen against the official lists.
An institution is one entry in the directory: a BIC8 in Swift’s directory, or a firm on a tracked register that holds no BIC. Licences held by an institution with a BIC are shown on its page.
Read the methodology →Register for this page
- CBUAE Register of Licensed Financial Institutions - Retail Payment Services—Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) · source ↗ as at 24 September 2026
- Ownership and group—GLEIF Level 2 relationship records (accounting consolidation), matched by LEI.
- Overview, authorisation, partners, products, leadership and events—researched per institution by an AI model with web search, from the firm's own website, terms and filings, regulators' registers and notices, company registers and news. Licences, partners, figures, people and events link to their source, and each card shows the research date. AI research can be wrong or out of date, so check key facts at the source.
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