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It’s now nearly 1.5 years since the pandemic started and the recovery is slowly but surely happening. From a payments perspective, the impact has been clearly visible and it’s now time to focus on how payments can contribute to more streamlined operations, a ramp up...

The global pandemic disrupted our lives in many ways. The year 2020 is already called an “annus horribilis” and this term definitively applies to the Travel sector and the people that work in it. In this article, before we kick off a hopefully better year, I’ll look...

A World Aviation Festival Blog - Sponsored by Mastercard The economic impact of COVID-19 has exacerbated existing challenges for the travel industry, while adding significant new pressures. A lack of visibility and predictability over payment flows, long settlement...

Payment orchestration for airlines, enabling a multi-vendor strategy that pays off "Don't put all your eggs in one basket". The first use in print of this saying has been traced to the novel "Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes in the early 1600's. In today's world,...

In August of last year I published an article on IATA's Transparency in Payments ("TIP") as part of my series about the impact of standards and regulations on Airline payments. It gave a quick look at the B2B channel and the impact of TIP on Travel Agents selling...

  The 8th Airline & Travel Payment Summit Asia-Pacific will take place from August 27-29 in Penang, Malaysia. On the first day of the main program I'll moderate the panel discussion on: "Industry regulations: from NDC to PSD2 and their impact on Payments...