expense management

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We’ve been telling you for a few years about airlines aiming to minimize corporate discounts, limit who gets them and shift to other forms of contract value. (See here, here, here, here, here and here.) Reflecting all that, a new American Airlines offer sits between the AAdvantage Business small business program and bespoke, large corporate…

Blockskye, United Invite Co-Branded Cards To Managed Corporate Travel
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Blockskye, United Invite Co-Branded Cards To Managed Corporate Travel

Blockchain-powered travel, payment and expense provider Blockskye announced on Tuesday that it launched Blockskye 360, a “first of its kind” platform connecting consumer loyalty cards with corporate travel management. United Airlines is the first supplier participant. The platform allows client organizations to capture data from purchases made using participating suppliers’ co-branded loyalty cards, regardless of…

TravelPerk CEO Avi Meir
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What is Yokoy, The Expense Software Firm TravelPerk Just Acquired?

TravelPerk on Tuesday announced it acquired Switzerland-based Yokoy in an all-equity deal alongside a $200 million infusion valuing TravelPerk at $2.7 billion. What’s Yokoy? Founded in 2019 as Expense Robot, the company changed its name in 2020 and began European expansion. It offers an AI-powered, cloud-based spend management platform with expense management and a variety…

Cindy Heston, Elevance director of travel and events

The Travel Manager’s Role: Greater Responsibility Can Mean Better Visibility

Eight in 10 travel managers last summer told BCD Travel that the scope of their responsibilities had widened in recent years. Is that a good thing? Growing the remit has benefits and challenges. Among a dozen corporate travel managers contributing views to this article, none advised against more responsibility. It’s all in how you manage…

Integration between Mastercard and SAP Concur echoes a growing interest in payment-first controls.
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Providers Seek New Ways To Use Payment For Spend And Travel Policy Controls

With the potential to reshape corporate travel policies, a Mastercard-SAP Concur integration gaining traction among customers reflects an interest in the sorts of payment-first controls typical of virtual card programs and championed by fintech startups. “Purchases made on Mastercard corporate cards are captured and automatically populated in Concur Expense,” SAP announced in March. “Users are…

Notebook on GBTA's Payment Solutions committee webinar on the updated RFP template
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Notebook: Key Steps For Card RFP Success

When embarking on corporate travel card request for proposals processes, buyers should leave plenty of time for preparation and hiccups. That was a cornerstone among the recommendations shared on a Nov. 1 webinar by members of GBTA’s payment committee as they walked through their updated RFP template. They advised buyers to conduct early self-reflection to…

Q&A: Emburse CEO Marne Martin

Q&A: Emburse CEO Marne Martin

Few companies have made as dramatic a C-suite housecleaning as quickly as travel and expense software firm Emburse. Save for its CFO, the company’s leadership page is entirely different than it was at this time last year. Emburse is the product of several acquisitions, going back nine years to private equity owner K1 Investment Management’s…

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