• New value-added service to expand credit access via Mastercard Merchant Cloud
• Precision credit scoring to deliver contextualized credit products within everyday digital journeys

Dubai, UAE; 11 December 2025: Mastercard is joining forces with Kee Platforms to provide embedded financing for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), micro retailers and solo entrepreneurs via Mastercard Merchant Cloud. With the opportunity to scale in the Middle East region, the collaboration will aim to create faster, fairer and more inclusive credit access for financially underserved businesses.

Users in Lebanon can send money abroad to over 50 countries, while Lebanese living overseas can send money home

Dubai, UAE: 21 August 2025: Whish Money has collaborated with Mastercard to enable inbound and outbound remittance flows for consumers in Lebanon. People in Lebanon can send money abroad to over 50 countries, while Lebanese living overseas can send money home.  The new collaboration leverages Mastercard Move’s money movement solutions and its global network of operators to provide a service that will enable millions of Lebanese worldwide to send and receive faster, safer and near real-time money transfers through Whish Money.

With the collaboration, Whish Money users in Lebanon will be able to start sending money cost-effectively through the Whish Money mobile application to 50+ countries in near real-time. Depending on the receive market, senders can choose how beneficiaries receive the funds, whether into their bank accounts, mobile wallets or by cash. The Lebanese senders now also have the option of using their cards to fund their Whish Money wallet, in addition to using cash. This is Mastercard’s first collaboration with a mobile wallet in Lebanon to facilitate remittances.