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With PayPal, UATP Expands Its Installment Options As Consumer Air Travel Rebounds
It’s a relatively new arrival among payment options for general merchandise, but the newest buy now, pay later concept has been available for air travel for some time, helping boost airlines after a tough year in 2020. In the latest development, Universal Air Travel Plan Inc. on Wednesday announced it …
Read More »UATP Adds Chase Pay to its Network and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 12/7/18
UATP, an airline-owned payment network, said it is adding Chase Pay to its network, a move that should make it easier for airlines to accept JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s Chase Pay in their apps and Web sites. NCR Corp. completed its $184 million acquisition of merchant processor JetPay Corp. Payments …
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UATP Books a Hotel As Its Airline-Card Network Diversifies
Processing volume hit some turbulence last year, but that didn't stop Universal Air Travel Plan Inc. from pursing its goal of adding merchants to its airline-owned network. Washington, D.C.-based UATP last week reported that LQ Management LLC's La Quinta Inns & Suites has become the first hotel chain in the …
Read More »UATP Keeps Its Eye on Alternative Payments?and Hotels
Universal Air Travel Plan Inc. is still in growth mode despite some weakness in its core corporate travel business, thanks in part to an ongoing alternative online-payments initiative that started in 2005. Now the specialty payment processor is looking to sign hotels as merchants. Processing volumes rose about 20% last …
Read More »Online PIN Debit Gets a Boost with the Latest UATP Payments Deal
Universal Air Travel Plan's alternative-payments initiative added a fifth processor this week with the announcement that Acculynk Inc. will process PIN debit transactions online for airlines that choose to enable the option through UATP's switch. The news not only further's UATP's 3-year-old effort to add alternatives to credit cards for …
Read More »UATP Opens Its Network to Third-Party Internet Payments Processors
Universal Air Travel Plan, which processes corporate travel payments for some 200 accepting airlines around the world, is opening its network to third-party Internet transaction processors as part of a strategy that could significantly boost network volume and bring consumer transactions through its settlement system for the first time. Ralph …
Read More »Airwallex’s Borderless Card and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/10/24
Airwallex launched in Canada what it calls its Borderless Visa Card, a virtual card Canadian business travelers can use for payments where Visa is accepted globally. Peoples Trust Co. is the issuer. Payments provider Talus Pay announced it is rebranding as simply Talus, while its recently acquired Jobox.ai unit will take on the …
Read More »Not Even 1% Want Crypto Checkout And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/20/24
Cryptocurrency as a payment method is only wanted by less than 1% of online shoppers surveyed in a Chargebacks911 report. The survey was performed by consulting and research firm TSG of 4,000 consumers. Payments platform ConnexPay said it is working with the UATP network and has launched its ConnexPay UATP card, a virtual card that …
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