Travel Payments

Affirm, Agoda to Provide BNPL Travel Booking
Affirm, Agoda to Provide BNPL Travel Booking
June 13, 2022  |  Travel Payments

Approved travelers booking hotels through the Agoda platform will get a buy now, pay later (BNPL) option provided by BNPL provider Affirm under a new...

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Subscription Travel Brings Recurring Summer Fun to the Road and Skies
Subscription Travel Brings Recurring Summer Fun to the Road and Skies
June 11, 2022  |  Travel Payments

If we can subscribe to something like Apocabox — should the world end on a predictable monthly recurring billing schedule — why can’t we subscribe to more...

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The Digital Merchant 2022: Crypto Payments Take Travel in New Directions
The Digital Merchant 2022: Crypto Payments Take Travel in New Directions
June 07, 2022  |  Travel Payments

Disrupting traditional travel payments — a legacy ecosystem rife with opacity and inefficiency — is potentially a killer app for cryptocurrency, availing new ways to...

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PYMNTS AM Radar: Digital Brazil; Security for the Win; Check Fraud; You’ve Been Scammed; ICYMI
PYMNTS AM Radar: Digital Brazil; Security for the Win; Check Fraud; You’ve Been Scammed; ICYMI
June 02, 2022  |  Security & Fraud

Today is Thursday, June 2, and Britain is celebrating its longest-reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, in her Platinum Jubilee year. For regular people, that means...

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Spirit Airlines Offers BNPL on Airfare
Spirit Airlines Offers BNPL on Airfare
June 01, 2022  |  Buy Now Pay Later

Spirit Airlines and Uplift, a buy now, pay later (BNPL) solution, are partnering to provide consumers with the ability to pay for flights in installments,...

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Gas High — But Spirits Higher — as Summer Travel Kicks Off
Gas High — But Spirits Higher — as Summer Travel Kicks Off
May 30, 2022  |  Travel Payments

If you’re among the nearly 40 million Americans expected to have traveled over this holiday weekend, you paid more than you have in many years...

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Travel Startup TripActions Seeks Funding at $9B Valuation
Travel Startup TripActions Seeks Funding at $9B Valuation
May 24, 2022  |  Investments

TripActions is looking at a new round of funding with a higher value, highlighting the investor interest in travel tech companies as the industry recovers,...

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India’s Oyo Hotels Pausing IPO 
India’s Oyo Hotels Pausing IPO 
May 24, 2022  |  International

Hospitality startup Oyo Hotels is putting plans for an initial public offering (IPO) on hold until after September to clean up its financial house and...

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Increase in Travel Boosts Demand for Managing Tolls, Tickets, Parking
Increase in Travel Boosts Demand for Managing Tolls, Tickets, Parking
May 13, 2022  |  Travel Payments

As travel has picked up, so have the numbers of tolls, tickets and parking meters to be paid. Verra Mobility reported that its total revenue...

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