The Merchant Expansion Through Digital Acceptance and Liquidity (MEDAL) Facility was created in Jordan to test methods for supporting “mobile payment service providers (mPSPs) [attempting] to meet certain merchant acquisition and QR-code transaction targets by experimenting with and developing business, operational and awareness strategies.” The program eventually provided two mPSPs a total of JOD 47,500 (USD 67,000) each because they met all three sets of the program targets, thus receiving the funds in three tranches. The targets included
