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  • Video
    UATP - The World's Trusted Payment Platform
    March 20, 2023

    UATP’s latest video displays the history and innovative identity of UATP, the world’s trusted payment platform.

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  • Press Releases
    WestJet Connects to UATP One Merchant Services for Payment Processing
    December 14, 2022
    WASHINGTON, 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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  • Blog
    The Rise of Super Apps in Latin America
    December 5, 2022
    Certainly, 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 & Reports
    The New Plan for Payment: Industry Report
    December 5, 2022
    There 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 Releases
    Save the Date - UATP's Airline Distribution 2023
    November 15, 2022
    WASHINGTON, Nov. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — UATP welcomes global airlines and travel industry leaders to attend Airline Distribution® 2023.  Airlin...
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  • News
    Uber for Business integrates AirPlus payments
    November 10, 2022
    Business 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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  • News
    Uber introduces AirPlus as new payment option
    November 10, 2022
    Corporate 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 Releases
    Uplift Now Accepted Through ARC Pay, Supported by UATP
    November 10, 2022
    WASHINGTON, 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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  • News
    Uber Now Accepting AirPlus Company Account
    November 9, 2022
    AirPlus 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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  • News
    Uber for Business to Accept AirPlus Accounts
    November 8, 2022
    The 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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  • News
    Uber Adds AirPlus as Payment Option
    November 8, 2022
    AirPlus 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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  • News
    Analyzing Hot Topics in Payment
    November 8, 2022
    Pay-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 Releases
    AirPlus and Uber for Business make business travel easier
    November 8, 2022
    NEU-ISENBURG, Germany and SAN FRANCISCO and WASHINGTON, Nov. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — The corporate payment specialist AirPlus International is pl...
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  • Blog
    Fast, safe and cost-effective: open banking for travel payments
    October 31, 2022
    The 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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  • Business Travel Executive
    News
    Forward Thrust
    July 19, 2022
    By 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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  • Blog
    Cryptocurrency, a growing opportunity in the LATAM market
    July 10, 2022
    It 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 & Reports
    White Paper: UATP – Leading the Charge
    July 1, 2022
    After 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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  • UATP One Merchant Services
    Video
    UATP – One Merchant Services
    June 28, 2022

    Provides payment processing and acquiring services that reduce cost, complexity, and risk for airlines globally.

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  • Vueling
    Press Releases
    Vueling joins forces with BitPay and UATP to accept cryptocurrencies as an alternative method of payment
    June 16, 2022
    The 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 & Reports
    Carpe Diem: What airline leaders need to know to seize the AFP opportunity
    June 1, 2022
    Airline 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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  • Blog
    What airline leaders need to know to seize the AFP opportunity
    June 1, 2022
    It’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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  • Business Travel Executive
    News
    Fare Game
    May 26, 2022
    Predicting 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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  • BTN Business Travel News
    News
    DRCT Aims to Bridge Airline, TMC Connections
    May 23, 2022
    Airline 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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  • Kyte
    News
    Is NDC keeping up with consumer needs?
    May 19, 2022
    By 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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  • BTN Business Travel News
    News
    AJG gets back to business travel as usual – and more
    April 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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  • Mystifly
    Press Releases
    Mystifly Joins UATP Network
    April 21, 2022
    WASHINGTON, 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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  • UATP Alternative Forms of Payment
    Video
    UATP - Alternative Forms of Payment
    April 7, 2022

    Connecting airlines to AFPs around the world to expand reach and grow revenue.

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  • Business Travel Executive
    News
    The Coming Convergence
    April 4, 2022
    By 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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  • UATP
    Press Releases
    UATP Invites Travel Industry Executives to Airline Distribution 2022
    March 16, 2022
    WASHINGTON and LISBON, Portugal, March 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — UATP invites global airlines and industry executives to attend Airline Distribution 202...
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  • UATP The New Power of Payment
    Video
    UATP - The New Power of Payment
    February 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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  • BTN Business Travel News
    News
    UATP Stays Focused on Unused Ticket Management, Adds Full PSP Offering
    February 14, 2022
    As 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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  • UATP Buy Now Pay Later
    Video
    Buy Now Pay Later Phenomenon – UATP & Uplift
    January 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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  • Uber for Business
    Press Releases
    UATP and Uber for Business Partner for Global Acceptance
    September 29, 2021
    WASHINGTON, 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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  • BitPay
    Press Releases
    UATP Partners With BitPay To Tap Into Cryptocurrency’s Growing Payment Popularity
    September 8, 2021
    WASHINGTON, 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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  • UATP
    Webinars & Reports
    Report: Unused Ticket Credits Post COVID-19
    June 30, 2021
    After 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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  • Ai
    Webinars & Reports
    UATP Webinar with Ai Events: Current & Future Payment Trends – Installments, QR Codes, Crypto & more
    June 8, 2021
    Gain 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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  • Ixaris
    Press Releases
    New Ixaris Card delivers equitable, sustainable payment model for airlines and OTAs
    May 26, 2021
    LONDON, 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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  • BTN Business Travel News
    Webinars & Reports
    Unused Tickets: Let’s Debate Solutions
    November 17, 2020
    Expiration 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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  • Edgar, Dunn & Company - UATP
    Webinars & Reports
    State of the Airline Industry Report: Alternative Forms of Payment 2020
    October 30, 2020
    These 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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  • MRC
    Webinars & Reports
    Impact of Covid-19 on travel and the need for Alternative Forms of Payment (AFP) in the airline industry
    October 1, 2020
    UATP 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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  • Ai
    Webinars & Reports
    Ai Events Webinar Recording – Alternative Payment Strategy Roundtable
    July 14, 2020
    Rachel 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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  • PhocusWire
    Webinars & Reports
    PhocusWire – A Permanent Shift in Business Traveler Behavior
    June 16, 2020
    Zach 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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  • Ai
    Webinars & Reports
    ATPS Pre-Conference Workshop with UATP on Alternative Payments
    June 1, 2020
    UATP, 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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  • Ai
    Webinars & Reports
    ATPS Virtual Lion’s Den
    May 20, 2020
    UATP 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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  • Altour
    Webinars & Reports
    A Minute with Altour – How UATP Solutions are Helping the Industry
    May 3, 2020
    Paul Swanston, Director, Global Network Sales, spoke with ALTOUR Corporate, Meetings & Incentives during their series, A Minute with Altour, to...
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  • Ai
    Webinars & Reports
    Ai Events Audio Podcast – Payments Chat with UATP
    April 17, 2020
    UATP executives chatted with Ai Events about the importance of establishing payment strategies, especially during unprecedented times.  From stream...
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  • Ai
    Webinars & Reports
    Alternative Forms of Payment in Travel – ATPS Webinar
    March 12, 2020
    Accepting 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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  • The Beat Research
    Webinars & Reports
    The Beat Research Report – TMC Structure, Sourcing, Satisfaction
    January 30, 2020
    At 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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