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VideoUATP - The World's Trusted Payment PlatformMarch 20, 2023UATP’s latest video displays the history and innovative identity of UATP, the world’s trusted payment platform.
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Press ReleasesWestJet Connects to UATP One Merchant Services for Payment ProcessingDecember 14, 2022WASHINGTON, Dec. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Global payment network UATP has announced that a portion of WestJet’s payment processing is now b...
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BlogThe Rise of Super Apps in Latin AmericaDecember 5, 2022Certainly, giant social media apps like Facebook have grown their already formidable presence by adding more non-communication features like Marketpla...
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Webinars & ReportsThe New Plan for Payment: Industry ReportDecember 5, 2022There is a tremendous amount of innovation and potential in a payments industry that has fully embraced digitalization. From the explosion of QR codes...
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Press ReleasesSave the Date - UATP's Airline Distribution 2023November 15, 2022WASHINGTON, Nov. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — UATP welcomes global airlines and travel industry leaders to attend Airline Distribution® 2023. Airlin...
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NewsUber for Business integrates AirPlus paymentsNovember 10, 2022Business travellers who want get rides with Uber for Business and pay through AirPlus, can requests a ride via the Uber app, and payment and billing t...
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NewsUber introduces AirPlus as new payment optionNovember 10, 2022Corporate payments specialist AirPlus is integrating with Uber Wallet – the first UATP issuer to do so – which will enable travellers to p...
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Press ReleasesUplift Now Accepted Through ARC Pay, Supported by UATPNovember 10, 2022WASHINGTON, Nov. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Uplift, the leading enterprise Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) solution, has announced that it is now accepte...
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NewsUber Now Accepting AirPlus Company AccountNovember 9, 2022AirPlus Company Account, the payment platform for AirPlus International, is now accepted on Uber, according to an announcement. Users of Uber for Busi...
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NewsUber for Business to Accept AirPlus AccountsNovember 8, 2022The account is a corporate expense solution that allows employees to book and pay for their travel and accommodation via a single unified account...
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NewsUber Adds AirPlus as Payment OptionNovember 8, 2022AirPlus is integrating with Uber Wallet—the first UATP issuer to do so—which will enable travelers to pay for Uber rides via the accounts, and co...
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NewsAnalyzing Hot Topics in PaymentNovember 8, 2022Pay-as-You-Fly Models The “pay as you fly” model made news in recent months when the German state of Lower Saxony issued a call for airlin...
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Press ReleasesAirPlus and Uber for Business make business travel easierNovember 8, 2022NEU-ISENBURG, Germany and SAN FRANCISCO and WASHINGTON, Nov. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — The corporate payment specialist AirPlus International is pl...
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BlogFast, safe and cost-effective: open banking for travel paymentsOctober 31, 2022The payments challenges arising from the COVID-19 pandemic – the cost of widespread chargebacks in particular – should prompt travel companies to reas...
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NewsForward ThrustJuly 19, 2022By Mark Rowh, BTE You might expect an entity that’s been around since 1936 to have something of an old-fashioned outlook. But that’s certainly not the...
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BlogCryptocurrency, a growing opportunity in the LATAM marketJuly 10, 2022It is not an overstatement to say that a significant portion of Latin American consumers have historically preferred cash transactions. Yet, after COV...
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Webinars & ReportsWhite Paper: UATP – Leading the ChargeJuly 1, 2022After two long and challenging years, business travel is poised to return to its pre-pandemic highs ahead of schedule. At UATP, we’ve always been bull...
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VideoUATP – One Merchant ServicesJune 28, 2022
Provides payment processing and acquiring services that reduce cost, complexity, and risk for airlines globally.
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Press ReleasesVueling joins forces with BitPay and UATP to accept cryptocurrencies as an alternative method of paymentJune 16, 2022The airline signs an agreement with the world’s largest provider of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency payment services BARCELONA, Spain, June 16, 2022 /PRNew...
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Webinars & ReportsCarpe Diem: What airline leaders need to know to seize the AFP opportunityJune 1, 2022Airline leaders today face massive competitive pressure to innovate and close gaps in their payment strategy so that they may rise to this moment. If ...
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BlogWhat airline leaders need to know to seize the AFP opportunityJune 1, 2022It’s hard to believe it’s been over two decades since AFPs (Alternative Forms of Payment) came onto the global financial scene. It didn...
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NewsFare GameMay 26, 2022Predicting changes in airfares with any degree of certainty seems to be an impossible task. But as prices go up and down, the possibility of monitorin...
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NewsDRCT Aims to Bridge Airline, TMC ConnectionsMay 23, 2022Airline content aggregator startup DRCT is positioning itself as a “neo-airline,” connecting its airline partners directly to travel sellers with AI t...
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NewsIs NDC keeping up with consumer needs?May 19, 2022By Alice Ferrari, CEO, Kyte Last week Kyte was in Lisbon attending the UATP annual conference on Airline Distribution. I was invited to speak on a pan...
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NewsAJG gets back to business travel as usual – and moreApril 26, 2022“Our business travel has returned with such vigour that our vendors are commenting that we will definitely meet and likely exceed our 2019 volume this...
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Press ReleasesMystifly Joins UATP NetworkApril 21, 2022WASHINGTON, April 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — UATP and Mystifly announced a strategic partnership in which UATP will be integrated into MystiPay, an airli...
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VideoUATP - Alternative Forms of PaymentApril 7, 2022
Connecting airlines to AFPs around the world to expand reach and grow revenue.
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NewsThe Coming ConvergenceApril 4, 2022By Bryan Yurcan Despite advancements in the digitization of financial services and payments in many aspects of everyday life, corporate travel booking...
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Press ReleasesUATP Invites Travel Industry Executives to Airline Distribution 2022March 16, 2022WASHINGTON and LISBON, Portugal, March 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — UATP invites global airlines and industry executives to attend Airline Distribution 202...
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VideoUATP - The New Power of PaymentFebruary 28, 2022
From providing a billing system and corporate transaction portal to processing alternative forms of payments and offering industry travel protection plans, we are here to help.
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NewsUATP Stays Focused on Unused Ticket Management, Adds Full PSP OfferingFebruary 14, 2022As travel buyers continue to grapple with unused flight credits lingering from the early days of the pandemic, UATP has played a key role in developin...
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VideoBuy Now Pay Later Phenomenon – UATP & UpliftJanuary 11, 2022
The UATP-Uplift partnership enables travel partners to deploy installment payments directly in their online booking flow while transacting across the UATP network.
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Press ReleasesUATP and Uber for Business Partner for Global AcceptanceSeptember 29, 2021WASHINGTON, Sept. 29, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — UATP and Uber for Business (NYSE: UBER) announced today a strategic partnership in which UATP will be integr...
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Press ReleasesUATP Partners With BitPay To Tap Into Cryptocurrency’s Growing Payment PopularitySeptember 8, 2021WASHINGTON, Sept. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — UATP is proud to be partnering with the world’s largest provider of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency payment servic...
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Webinars & ReportsReport: Unused Ticket Credits Post COVID-19June 30, 2021After the extraordinarily difficult year faced in the airline and hospitality industry, travel has resumed. UATP built a solution for the industry...
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Webinars & ReportsUATP Webinar with Ai Events: Current & Future Payment Trends – Installments, QR Codes, Crypto & moreJune 8, 2021Gain insight into the latest industry trends of Alternative Forms of Payments (AFPs) during this webinar recording with speakers from UATP, Uplift, ...
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Press ReleasesNew Ixaris Card delivers equitable, sustainable payment model for airlines and OTAsMay 26, 2021LONDON, May 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Ixaris today announces the launch of the Ixaris Card: an innovative new virtual card powered by Universal Air Trav...
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Webinars & ReportsUnused Tickets: Let’s Debate SolutionsNovember 17, 2020Expiration time is ticking on many unused tickets and travel managers need solutions. In this rapid-fire debate, three speakers pitched their soluti...
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Webinars & ReportsState of the Airline Industry Report: Alternative Forms of Payment 2020October 30, 2020These days, digital transformation is not the only term buzzing around the industry, there are other very real and tangible changes that are happen...
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Webinars & ReportsImpact of Covid-19 on travel and the need for Alternative Forms of Payment (AFP) in the airline industryOctober 1, 2020UATP and Edgar, Dunn & Company analyzed the impact of Covid-19 on the travel sector and how Alternative Forms of Payment (AFP) can assist the a...
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Webinars & ReportsAi Events Webinar Recording – Alternative Payment Strategy RoundtableJuly 14, 2020Rachel Morowitz, UATP’s vice president alternative forms of payment, along with members of UATP partners, Citcon and Uplift, discussed the changing...
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Webinars & ReportsPhocusWire – A Permanent Shift in Business Traveler BehaviorJune 16, 2020Zach Ornelas, vice president of network sales at UATP, participated along with TripActions in a PhocusWire webinar on 16 June 2020 to discuss the o...
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Webinars & ReportsATPS Pre-Conference Workshop with UATP on Alternative PaymentsJune 1, 2020UATP, along with two of its partners – Trustly and Fly Now Pay Later, hosted a round-table discussion that kicked off the 2020 Airline & Travel Pa...
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Webinars & ReportsATPS Virtual Lion’s DenMay 20, 2020UATP co-hosted and participated in the fast-paced ATPS Virtual Lion’s Den session online on Wednesday, 20 May, 2020. This event featured 4 innovat...
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Webinars & ReportsA Minute with Altour – How UATP Solutions are Helping the IndustryMay 3, 2020Paul Swanston, Director, Global Network Sales, spoke with ALTOUR Corporate, Meetings & Incentives during their series, A Minute with Altour, to...
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Webinars & ReportsAi Events Audio Podcast – Payments Chat with UATPApril 17, 2020UATP executives chatted with Ai Events about the importance of establishing payment strategies, especially during unprecedented times. From stream...
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Webinars & ReportsAlternative Forms of Payment in Travel – ATPS WebinarMarch 12, 2020Accepting alternative forms of payments can better prepare your airline by giving customers the payment choice they want. UATP is proudly supportin...
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Webinars & ReportsThe Beat Research Report – TMC Structure, Sourcing, SatisfactionJanuary 30, 2020At UATP we realize that travel buyers equipped with the latest travel management solutions have more successful and efficient travel programs. This...
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