Emerging Markets Payments Partners with Premier Bank, its First Customer in Somalia

Emerging Markets Payments (EMP), the leading electronic payments processing company in Africa and the Middle East, is pleased to announce that it is now working with Premier Bank, its first customer in Somalia. Working together, EMP will deliver debit and prepaid issuing services, as well as ATM aquiring throughout the Premier Bank network. As a

MasterCard Becomes First International Payments Network to Enter Somalia

At the World Economic Forum on Africa, MasterCard announced its partnership with Premier Bank, becoming the first international payments network to enter Somalia. As a result of the partnership, Premier Bank will now issue and accept the first MasterCard-branded payment cards in Somalia, a country that hasn’t had any form of formal banking service since

NBAD First to Select New NCR Branch Transformation Technology in the Middle East

The National Bank of Abu Dhabi , UAE’s premier bank, is the first financial institution in the Middle East to select NCR SelfServ 91, a new hardware platform that will help NBAD transform its branches and extend its retail banking footprint. As the latest in branch banking technology from NCR Corporation , the global leader