Kuwait Finance House (KFH), in association with Visa, is the first bank in Kuwait to launch Visa Checkout (VCO), a service, which enables quick, safe and secure online payment.

Group General Manager Retail Banking at KFH, Fadi Chalouhi said that this innovative service is offered to KFH’s credit and prepaid cardholders as part of the bank’s initiative to enhance e-payment methods.

For consumers and online retailers, Visa Checkout offers an easy and secure way to pay online.  Enrolling in Visa Checkout is intuitive and simple, and customers can use any KFH Visa credit or prepaid card or even other KFH branded cards to make purchases from a desktop, laptop, tablet or mobile device.  Once enrolled, customers simply provide their username and password to complete the payment process without ever having to leave the merchant’s website.

He added that KFH customers can visit KFH.com, click “Enroll Now" on the "Visa Checkout" page and follow the simple steps to add a KFH credit or prepaid card, and enjoy the quick, easy and more convenient payment method for customers in a very secure manner.

Chalouhi indicated that KFH strategy focuses on offering innovative banking services and products to its customers, while continuously keeping abreast with latest banking technology in order to meet the aspiration of its customers and maintain the bank’s pioneering position as a world leading Islamic financial institution.

Visa Checkout now has more than 20 million consumer accounts, hundreds of thousands of large and small merchants across 26 countries including the UAE in the region.