Dubai International Financial Centre has announced that Payrails will set up its Middle East headquarters in Dubai International Financial Centre, positioning the payments-focused fintech to expand its regional presence and support businesses with payments and financial infrastructure. Payrails provides a modular financial operating system covering the payment lifecycle and related workflows, including routing across providers, consolidating payment data, automating reconciliation and managing disputes. The firm already supports enterprise merchants operating at scale in the Middle East, including Careem and Majid Al-Futtaim, and will join DIFC’s ecosystem of financial institutions and technology providers operating under its common law framework, with the DIFC Authority highlighting governance, transparency and operational resilience as key features of the centre’s offering.