The global travel payments industry is having an urgent conversation about agentic commerce. At the Airline and Travel Payments Mega Event in Dublin this month, the central question was how
General Catalyst just led a major bet on a startup that collapsed the gap between travel booking and payments into a single product. The implications stretch well beyond India. For
The Dida-WEX partnership is a distribution story dressed as a payments announcement. Understanding the difference will matter more than most travel executives currently appreciate. When Dida Holdings and WEX announced
For African online travel agencies, the payment problem has never really been about technology. It has been about rails. Specifically, the absence of reliable ones. A customer in Nairobi wants
A co-branded card deal is less about plastic and more about who owns the customer relationship in African travel Ethiopian Airlines and Visa have expanded their co-branded card partnership as
When Emirates announced a third daily flight between Dubai and Nairobi in March, the headline wrote itself: capacity expansion, strong demand, a flagship corridor performing above expectations. That is not
Airlines won the distribution war. The settlement infrastructure wasn’t ready for what comes next. The First Battle For the better part of a decade, the airline industry’s defining strategic battle
Outpayce has integrated Riskified’s fraud prevention suite into its travel payments platform. The announcement is straightforward. The commercial model underneath it is not. Airline payments have always been an uncomfortable
When South African Airways announced it would accept Bitcoin for flight bookings in early 2026, the headlines followed a predictable path. First-mover in Africa. Crypto goes mainstream. Digital assets meet
RateGain Travel Technologies has added Razorpay as a Platinum Partner for RG Pay, its unified payments platform for travel and hospitality brands, bringing India’s dominant payment rails directly into its
