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A Few Minutes With GoldSpring Consulting, Episode 2

Thanks for your interest in our new audio series in which we interview the industry veterans at GoldSpring Consulting about developments in travel management. In this second installment, recorded March 18, 2019, GoldSpring partner Will Tate talks to The Company Dime’s Jay Campbell about Southwest Airlines’ upcoming requirements for using credit cards online, supplier promotions…

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Canadian Travel Firms Last Year Beat Back Visa Rules Mandating Card Security Codes, Skirting Issues Southwest Bookers Could Face

[UPDATE, June 14, 2019: Starting June 17, users of Southwest Airlines’ Swabiz corporate booking portal must insert their credit card’s three- or four-digit security code. According to the airline, that includes those using a “Swabiz ghost card” (when card info wasn’t stored before June 17), those using a stored personal card (for the first purchase…

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Upcoming Visa Rules Have TMCs Scrambling On How To Make Online Airline Buys

[UPDATE, June 14, 2019: Starting June 17, users of Southwest Airlines’ Swabiz corporate booking portal must insert their credit card’s three- or four-digit security code. According to the airline, that includes those using a “Swabiz ghost card” (when card info wasn’t stored before June 17), those using a stored personal card (for the first purchase…

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Passport And Visa Processing: ‘Barely A Line Item’ But Critical To Business Travel Success

You’d be hard-pressed to find a bigger business travel headache than handling passport and visa applications. That’s why travel managers outsource faster than you can say “red tape.” But with hundreds of providers even in a particular city, how do program managers know which to select? There are many considerations. For functions that are often…

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Stripe Launches Platform For Card Creation

Online payments company Stripe announced Stripe Issuing, a platform for creating and managing physical and virtual cards. This includes creating “employee expense cards with dynamic spending limits.” Physical cards “can feature customizable designs, and ship in a few days,” according to a Stripe blog post. Virtual cards “can be used instantly through mobile wallets.” Admins…

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American Express Global Business Travel To Acquire Hogg Robinson Group, Fraedom To Visa

Now that’s a mega. American Express Global Business Travel today announced plans to acquire Hogg Robinson Group in an all-cash deal. Both are among the top four global travel management companies. Publicly traded HRG also announced it would sell its Fraedom software business to Visa for 142 million pounds ($198 million). Depending on conditions related to…

Visa, United Add Key Piece To Ancillary Reporting Puzzle
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Visa, United Add Key Piece To Ancillary Reporting Puzzle

It was a long time coming, but standardized, global credit card reporting on ancillary airline spending is finally in place — at least for United Airlines’ corporate accounts using Visa cards. The airline in April began sending data through Visa using defined category formats that identify things like bag fees, upgrades and inflight WiFi. Using…

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