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Following on from last year's conference on blockchain, the 2019 edition of Univ'AirPlus will focus on a theme dear to the heart of business travellers: their well-being. Held on 5 September at the Chateauform City George V, this conference aims to decipher the human issues associated with business travel, with a view to putting - truly, says the specialist in payment solutions for business travellers - the...

Globalisation, consolidation, optimisation... It's been a long time, at least ten years, since the business world began to manage business travel on a global scale. "Of the 1,000 biggest companies in the world, fewer and fewer have fragmented programmes. Of course, you still have multinationals where each country does its own...

American Express is extending its range of airport lounges available free of charge to Platinum cardholders and Centurion members, and to two accompanying persons. The corporate payment card issuer is to open its thirteenth and fourteenth Centurion lounges, the first in Europe and the second outside the United States after Hong Kong.

Booking.com is strengthening its integration into the world of business travel by teaming up with AirPlus International. Using virtual cards issued by the German specialist in corporate payment solutions, companies can now generate a unique Mastercard number enabling their employees to pay for their accommodation via the Booking.com for Business platform. "This collaboration...

What are the current and future developments in payment methods? Carlo Bovero - BNP Paribas has been offering a wide range of innovative payment methods for business travellers for many years. We adapt our offer to suit different uses, to make it easier for our customers to use. Because...

AirPlus specialises in dematerialised payment through its A.I.D.A. stored value and virtual cards. Why is it now rolling out a corporate card offer? Patrick Diemer - We're sticking to our strategy of centralising and dematerialising payments. But we are supplementing this approach with a means of payment that is essential for business travellers...

100 days to go until AirPlus issues its first pan-European corporate card on 24 September. To launch this new offer, the specialist in corporate payment solutions has chosen France, its second largest market after Germany. AirPlus has almost twenty years' experience of this type of product, and is a true expert in the field...

A "serenity" product: this is how Société Générale presents its new corporate card with dynamic cryptogram. This new-generation card has a small screen on the back where the three-digit code changes every hour. This greatly reduces the risk of fraud. In fact, even if the card's...

AirPlus is expanding the functionalities of its A.I.D.A. solution with its new virtual payment card issuing platform. Limit per card, validity period, currency, purchase category, number of possible authorisations, expense approval email: the aim of this development is to give companies greater control over payments, for maximum security, but also to make it easier for them to...

The dematerialisation of the means of payment available to companies and their employees is one of the major trends in business travel. On the one hand, because it facilitates the payment of business trips by travel agencies, but also after the fact, by allowing optimised monitoring of expenditure. Visa is part of...

What policy should you adopt in the face of the European Union's decision to lower interchange fees in order to facilitate card payments, even for small amounts? With the entry into force, at the end of 2015, of a new regulation setting at 0.28 % the rate of commissions relating to credit card payments debited on the...

A cashless world! At regular intervals, observers of the monetary world announce the disappearance of banknotes and coins. This time, however, it looks as if this is really on the agenda. Economist Henri Bourguinat recently expressed his views on the subject in an article published in Le Monde...

Despite a fairly competitive market, AirPlus had a good year in 2015. The German payment solutions specialist recorded a growth in transaction volume of 9% both worldwide and in France - AirPlus' second largest market after Germany - , for a turnover of 329 million euros in 2015,...

To rationalise business travel expenditure, small companies, like large ones, are increasingly turning to electronic means of payment. The use of payment cards is obviously more widespread among international groups than among SMEs. A study was carried out in...

Indispensable tools for travel and travel management, corporate cards are offered by major international payment networks: American Express, Diners Club, Mastercard and Visa. Based on the number of cards it holds, Carte Bleue Visa claims to cover two-thirds of the market for universally accepted corporate cards, meaning that there are no...