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PayPal Links With NEO PAY To Power UAE E-Commerce

New integration lets UAE merchants accept PayPal at checkout, cutting friction for SMEs selling to customers abroad.

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6 months ago

January 27, 2026

paypal links with neo pay to power uae e-commerce

PayPal has struck a partnership with UAE acquirer NEO PAY to let local merchants accept PayPal payments, giving businesses a faster route to overseas customers and cross-border sales.

The deal connects PayPal directly to NEO PAY’s acquiring infrastructure, allowing online sellers to switch on PayPal at checkout without separate integrations or complex onboarding. For smaller merchants, that removes a common barrier to selling internationally: access to a payment method foreign shoppers already recognize.

The timing is deliberate. The UAE’s e-commerce market is projected to reach $21.18 billion by 2030, according to Mordor Intelligence, as online retail and digital services continue to outpace traditional channels. SMEs — about 94% of all businesses in the country and more than half of GDP — account for much of that activity, yet often lack the tools to handle cross-border payments at scale.

For PayPal, the agreement extends its footprint in the Middle East and Africa through a local partner rather than a standalone build-out. “Deepening our presence through this partnership with NEO PAY is a critical step in our regional growth strategy,” said Otto Williams, Senior Vice President, Regional Head and General Manager, Middle East and Africa, at PayPal. “By integrating PayPal, merchants, especially SMEs, can better serve today’s digital-first consumers and scale with confidence”.

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NEO PAY, which focuses on digital acquiring for e-commerce merchants, is positioning the tie-up as a way to broaden payment choice while keeping operations simple. “This partnership allows us to provide secure, trusted, and globally recognized payment options — enhancing the checkout experience and supporting our merchants’ growth across borders,” said Vibhor Mundhada, CEO of NEO PAY.

The move reflects a wider shift in the Gulf’s payments stack. Local processors are increasingly acting as gateways to global wallets and networks, a model that fits the UAE’s push to grow exports, support SMEs and cement its role as a regional digital commerce hub. For merchants, it’s straightforward: fewer hoops at checkout, more reach beyond the country’s borders.

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A Three-Clinic Network Bets Dubai Is Ready For Longevity Medicine

Longevium has enlisted nearly 100 clinicians and created an AI platform in a bid to sell biological-age tracking as a medicine, not a wellness service.

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2 days ago

July 13, 2026

Dana Saadeh

a three-clinic network bets dubai is ready for longevity medicine

Dubai has been busily creating the scaffolding for a longevity industry, including a dedicated regulatory authority and a health market deep enough to sustain it. Now the clinics are arriving.

Longevium, a longevity clinic network, has opened three locations across the city: a flagship at Triple Seven Mall on Jumeirah 3, and branches in Jumeirah Lake Towers and Jumeirah Village Circle. Together they house a multidisciplinary team of nearly 100 physicians and specialists offering what the company bills as “a measurable medical system for longevity”.

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The pitch is that longevity medicine should look less like a wellness menu and more like continuous clinical care. Each patient’s biological age assessment, laboratory results, body composition, cardiovascular risk factors, metabolic markers, and lifestyle data feed into a single profile, with a proprietary AI platform helping physicians track progress and adjust protocols against the patient’s own biomarkers.

“Healthy aging must be approached clinically through diagnostics, biomarkers, physician supervision, longitudinal tracking, and protocols tailored to the individual,” said Dr. Ksenia Butova, Longevium’s founder and CEO. “Our goal is to help patients understand their health trajectory before disease develops, and then actively change that trajectory”.

The treatment list spans peptide-based protocols, exosome therapies, stem cell approaches, GLP-1 metabolic optimization, hormone balance programs, cardiovascular prevention, and regenerative aesthetics — a model built for the entrepreneurs, executives, and international patients the clinic says want measurable results rather than generic wellness. A signature offering, Longevity Day, compresses biomarker testing, ultrasound and vascular imaging, specialist consultations, IV therapy, and a personalized optimization roadmap into a single three-hour visit.

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“Here, longevity, biotechnology, AI, prevention, and regenerative medicine are converging into a single ecosystem,” said Butova. “This is why Longevium was built in Dubai, and why we believe the UAE can become a global reference point for longevity medicine”.

The emirate established the Dubai Longevity Authority in 2026 to oversee its longevity, wellness, and advanced health sectors, and the Dubai Health Authority reported insured beneficiaries exceeding 4.9 million in 2025, up around 6.5%, with insurance claims reaching approximately 49.6 million, up around 13.5%.