The dematerialisation of the means of payment made available to companies and their employees is one of the key trends in business travel. On the one hand, upstream, because it makes it easier for travel agencies to pay for business trips, but also after the event, by making it possible to optimised monitoring of expenditure. Visa is part of this movement with its Central Travel Account, launched two years ago in Europe and for the last nine months on the French market via the BNP Paribas travel card. VISA will be presenting this new solution on the French bank's stand at the forthcoming IFTM Top Résa trade fair, to be held at Porte de Versailles from 26 to 29 September.
" Visa was a logical choice to complement our range. We wanted to develop our own solution to cover corporate travel expenses."explains Laurent Sautré, Head of Commercial Cards at BNP Paribas.in Europe, there are very few issuers offering the full range of commercial cards. "
Backed by an acceptance network covering 200 countries, this paperless payment solution is enhanced by the Intellilink Spend Management platform, which can be used to identify expenditure by supplier, destination, travel class or hotel category, or to consolidate costs by project. Above all, it enables you to consolidate all transactions from the Visa network (Visa CTA, business card, virtual card, prepaid card). "It thus provides an aggregated view of expenditure"says Ahmed Djoubri, Marketing Director for Visa in France.
As well as providing companies with a solution for managing employee travel, travel agencies also benefit from integrating it into their information systems. As well as providing better cover for expenses, Visa CTA's advantages include shorter payment times and lower costs. competitive commissions enabling agencies to offer their customers better financial terms.
