– The landscape of digital payment across the region is changing rapidly and fueling the Market growth, owing to unsettling digital transformation. The stores and services across the region are rapidly adopting and integrating mobile payment applications, such as PayPal, Samsung Pay, Apple Pay, and Google Pay to accept payments. Owing to changing lifestyles, daily commerce, and rapid growth in online retailing, this trend is expected to continue during the forecast period in the region.
– The market studied is expected to flourish, owing to the robust proliferation of smartphones and the internet. The internet penetration rate has been recording healthy growth over the past few years, and it is expected to continue traversing the same trajectory, owing to increasing investments by internet service providers in the region. In Qatar, 75% of the population has a mobile phone, and it is 73% in the UAE, and 60% in Saudi Arabia.
– The Middle East’s reliance on cash is due to a number of socio-economic factors, including education, awareness, and habits. Although cash will likely remain king in the Middle East, through government promotion, people are gradually learning about the ease and benefits of a cashless society, which is likely to boost the market growth in the region.

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Key Market Trends

High Proliferation of Smartphones and Internet Penetration to Drive the Market Growth

– The global mobile connections surpassed the global population mark. For instance, according to the GSMA, the global mobile connections in 2019 stood at 8.98 billion, and it is increasing significantly with prominent growth rates in Middle East and North Africa.
– In Middle East and North Africa, one in three mobile money providers that offer a smartphone app is seeing 20 percent or more of their active customer base transacting through the app, and a growing number of deployments in the Middle East see over half of the transactions performed through smartphone apps.
– A recent survey from MasterCard indicates that digital payments in the Middle East may increase rapidly with over 70% of respondents in the survey stating that they were willing to use mobile phones to make payments. The shift to mobile could also have a tremendous economic impact, as studies have shown that the Middle East could add USD 95 billion to GDP by 2020.​
– In September 2019, inwi, Moroccan telecom operator, launched its mobile money service inwi money. The service works on Comviva’s mobiquity money, where the service offers consumers a quick, convenient and secure way to perform multiple financial transactions, such as person-to-person money transfer, airtime purchase, bill payments, and merchant payments.​
– In March 2020, after securing approval from the “Bank Al Maghrib”, Orange Morocco had announced the launch of Orange Money in the country. This service is expected to allow Moroccans to make mobile payments and transfer money using their mobile devices.

Launch of Real-time Payment Systems in Key GCC and North African Countries ​to Drive the Market Growth

– As digital payment options continue to grow in popularity, an increasing number of businesses and consumers are expected to adopt these payments in the region. It is therefore crucial for the region to have an underlying real-time infrastructure in place to enable these payments to make it quick and effective.
– The launch of a real-time payment service provides the core infrastructure which supports a range of new banking and payment services. At a macro level, the introduction of such technology offers tangible benefits to a national economy by increasing liquidity and efficiency of the payments system, which in turn, will support the GDP growth and also reduce costs of doing business in the region and provide convenient secure access to payments systems for banked and unbanked consumers, businesses, and governments.

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– The recent launch of real-time payments in Saudi Arabia is serving as a catalyst for the adoption of real-time payments amongst other countries in the region. This may benefit financial institutions (FIs), merchants, consumers, and society by offering enhanced visibility into payments, by enabling better cash management and helping businesses better manage day-to-day operations by improving liquidity.
– As the region is operating cross-border, and it requires smoother, cheaper, and quicker payment processes. Hence, launching such real-time payment system in the region is likely to increase and drive the market growth.

Competitive Landscape

The Middle East & North Africa digital payments market is moderately concentrated. The competitive rivalry in the market studied is moderate, as a good number of players prevail. Despite the existence of several companies in the market studied, firms are required to keep innovating their products, in order to gain a sustainable competitive edge over their rivals and provide product differentiation. Some of the key developments in the market are:

1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 Study Deliverables
1.2 Study Assumptions
1.3 Scope of the Study

2 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

3 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

4 MARKET DYNAMICS
4.1 Market Overview
4.2 Market Drivers
4.2.1 High Proliferation of Smartphones and Social Interactions​
4.2.2 Enablement Programs by Key Retailers to Bridge the Gap Between Physical and Digital World​
4.2.3 Launch of Real-time Payment Systems in Key GCC and North African Countries ​
4.2.4 Growing Emphasis on Customer Satisfaction and Convergence of Global Trends in the Region​
4.3 Market Restraints
4.3.1 Operational Challenges Involving Cross-border Payments and Relative Lack of Digital Literacy in Key Emerging Countries in the Region​
4.4 Value Chain Analysis
4.5 Porter’s Five Forces Analysis 
4.5.1 Threat of New Entrants
4.5.2 Bargaining Power of Buyers/Consumers
4.5.3 Bargaining Power of Suppliers
4.5.4 Threat of Substitute Products
4.5.5 Intensity of Competitive Rivalry
4.6 Key Regulations and Standards in the Digital Payment Industry ​
4.7 Assessment of Impact of COVID-19 on the Middle East & North Africa Digital Payments Market
4.8 Key Base Indicators
4.8.1 Digital Literacy
4.8.2 Population Index
4.8.3 Strong Presence of Expatriate Workers in the Middle East Region
4.9 Major Case Studies and Implementation Use-cases

5 CURRENT PAYMENT LANDSCAPE IN MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA

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