Co-Badged Cards
Co-badged cards are credit and debit cards that integrate two or more payment networks.
mada Co-Badged Cards
mada is Saudi Arabia's domestic payment network.
These mada co-badged debit cards are supported:
- Visa and mada
- Mastercard and mada
mada co-badged debit cards are processed as follows:
- Only domestic processing is supported in Saudi Arabia.
- Transactions are sent directly to the Saudi Arabia Monetary Authority (SAMA) for processing.
- Payer authentication is supported. Visa Secure is supported for co-badged Visa and mada cards. Mastercard Identity Check is supported for co-badged Mastercard and mada cards.
- For acquirers, the card type is identified as MD.
- In reports, the card type is identified as either Visa or Mastercard.
- Dual-message processing is not supported. Only single-message processing is supported.