{"id":400375,"date":"2017-09-15T21:49:02","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T13:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/09\/15\/apple-pay-dubai-uae-emirates-nbd\/"},"modified":"2017-09-15T21:49:02","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T13:49:02","slug":"apple-pay-coming-soon-to-dubais-largest-bank-in-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/apple-pay-coming-soon-to-dubais-largest-bank-in-middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Pay Coming Soon to Dubai&#8217;s Largest Bank in Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/ae\/apple-pay\/\">updated its website<\/a> to indicate that Emirates NBD, the largest bank in Dubai, will soon offer Apple Pay.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2017\/09\/apple-pay-uae.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"657\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-589338\"\/><br \/>Emirates NBD has confirmed Apple Pay is coming soon in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hafezberg\/status\/908611888984051712\">recent email<\/a> to customers, including MacRumors reader Hafez. \u200f<\/p>\n<p><center readability=\"0.5\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\" readability=\"2.5\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MacRumors\">@MacRumors<\/a> Apple Pay is coming to Dubai <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IsfjXCUP74\">pic.twitter.com\/IsfjXCUP74<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hafez (@hafezberg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hafezberg\/status\/908611888984051712\">September 15, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center><br \/>Last month, Apple announced that Apple Pay will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/08\/01\/apple-pay-finland-sweden\/\">expand to Denmark, Finland, Sweden, and the United Arab Emirates<\/a> by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/ae\/apple-pay\/\">new page<\/a> on Apple&#8217;s regional website for the United Arab Emirates now lists Apple Pay as &#8220;coming soon&#8221; in the country, suggesting a launch is imminent. The page has yet to go live in Denmark, Finland, and Sweden.<\/p>\n<p>Other participating banks in the United Arab Emirates will include Mashreq Bank, Emirates Islamic Bank, Rakbank, Standard Chartered, and HSBC.<\/p>\n<p>MasterCard and Visa credit and debit cards will be supported at launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has updated its website to indicate that Emirates NBD, the largest bank in Dubai, will soon offer Apple Pay. Emirates NBD has confirmed Apple Pay is coming soon in a recent email to customers, including MacRumors reader Hafez. \u200f @MacRumors Apple Pay is coming to Dubai pic.twitter.com\/IsfjXCUP74 \u2014 Hafez (@hafezberg) September 15, 2017 Last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":400376,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[68,69,59,26],"class_list":["post-400375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-macrumors","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}