The FinTech Behind Your Trips: What Happens Between Click and Check-In
Hey Payments Fanatic!
Summer is here, and you’ve already swiped, tapped, or clicked your way toward your next trip. So here’s something you may not have thought about.
You know I also travel quite often, but what does this have to do with FinTech?
Quite a lot, actually.
The more I travel, the more I realise how many FinTech companies are quietly shaping the way we book, pay, and move around the world.
What I find interesting is that most of this happens completely behind the scenes.
When you book a hotel or a flight, you probably only notice the smooth checkout, fast payment, or the ability to pay with your preferred method.
But underneath that experience sits a complex network of payment providers, FX solutions, fraud tools, and settlement systems working together to make it all happen.
I dug a little deeper into the topic, so I prepared an article for you sharing my insights.
In today’s feature, I take a closer look at some of the companies and trends shaping Travel FinTech.
Did I miss any noteworthy examples? Let me know in the comments 👇
Today’s Payments headlines are just below, see you tomorrow!
Cheers,
HOW PAYMENTS COMPANIES PERFORMED LAST WEEK
📈 A snapshot of last week’s stock moves across public Payments Companies:
NEWS
🇵🇹 xMoney has become the first Mastercard issuer worldwide to launch Mastercard Payment Passkey, enabling biometric authentication for tokenized online payments and Click to Pay transactions. The solution replaces passwords and one-time codes with fingerprint or facial recognition for a faster checkout experience.
🇮🇳 Pine Labs has launched P3P, a payment protocol that enables AI agents to complete UPI transactions once user-approved conditions are met. Designed for agentic commerce, the protocol allows automated purchases while maintaining user control through mandates, limits and audit trails.
🇺🇸 Yellow Card has selected Turnkey to provide embedded wallet infrastructure for its stablecoin payment network across emerging markets. The partnership aims to simplify cross-border transactions by removing wallet complexity, allowing users to access stablecoin-based payments through familiar authentication methods.
🇬🇧 Pleo announces new agentic capabilities aimed at transforming financial management and decision-making. The company unveiled a suite of AI agents designed to automate routine spend management tasks, enabling finance teams to focus on more strategic work. Rolling out in beta from July, the agents will support key finance workflows, from expenses to accounting.
🇪🇺 Pleo undertakes fresh round of job cuts, around 50 laid off, across its product, tech, design and data teams. Staff in Pleo’s home market of Denmark, the UK, and Germany were impacted by these layoffs, sources say. The cuts are part of an ongoing transformation aimed at improving focus and accelerating product delivery, a spokesperson said.
🌎 Levata has acquired POSDATA Group, expanding its capabilities into payment technologies. The deal adds payment terminal distribution, encryption key injection and deployment services, strengthening Levata’s presence in the retail and hospitality sectors while broadening its enterprise technology platform.
🌎 Early Warning Services plans to expand Zelle internationally, with India set to become the first market where U.S. consumers can send money to family and friends overseas. The company also unveiled ZelleUSD (ZLUSD), a U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin intended to support future cross-border payment capabilities.
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