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The future of payments isn’t just about what’s possible — it’s about how effectively those possibilities are realized. When it comes to advancements like generative artificial intelligence (AI), where the opportunities ...

The travel industry, perpetually in motion, has become a fertile ground for payments innovation. As the sector races to meet changing consumer expectations, payment orchestration is emerging as a linchpin in ...

Travel-industry-focused payment orchestration firm CellPoint Digital has raised $30 million in new funding. The financing, from Toscafund and Penta Capital, will help speed the launch of CellPoint’s Offer Order Service Delivery (OOSD) payment orchestration platform, created to ...

Paysafe partnered with CellPoint Digital to allow travel merchants to offer seamless payments to their customers. The integration enabled by this collaboration will allow these merchants to connect to numerous acquirers ...

There’s nothing simple about travel, especially from a payments POV. But there should be. “Simplicity in travel, the more they can go hand-in-hand, the better that is for everyone,” Kristian Gjerding, ...

Enhancing the customer experience is crucial to success in the travel sector, CellPoint Digital Global Head of Product Tom Randklev writes in a new PYMNTS eBook, “The New Value Equation: 11 ...

Airlines run on two things: schedules and exceptions to those schedules. For the travel industry, building the plane itself represents a more straightforward, even simpler, exercise than getting it into the ...

Payments orchestration firm CellPoint Digital partnered with payment services provider PayU GPO. The collaboration is designed to provide more payment options to travel merchants that work with the two companies, according ...

CellPoint Digital has launched a suite of alternative payment methods for the travel sector. The payment orchestration company’s APM Hub debuts as travelers are increasingly turning to alternative payment methods (APMs) like ...

CellPoint Digital will provide payment orchestration services to Arajet, an airline based in the Dominican Republic that serves 23 destinations in 16 countries in the Caribbean and the Americas. This partnership will ...

CellPoint Digital appointed Mark Patrick, who had been its global head of payments since 2019, to be its chief revenue officer. Patrick succeeds Greg Worch, who retired, the company said in ...

In life, and in commerce, it is often the little things that matter most. And as digitization changes the world, those little things are getting both smaller and more important ...

Virgin Atlantic has formed a partnership with airline-focused payment orchestration company CellPoint Digital. The collaboration is designed to make transactions for travelers on the British air carrier seamless and more secure, the two companies said ...

Embedded finance has the potential to revolutionize the way software platforms and marketplaces operate. Yet for all its promise, certain barriers stand in the way of broader adoption by Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) ...

Money in and money out always matters, but cash flows come to the forefront in uncertain times. And today’s macro environment is increasingly driving a strong argument for better B2B payments. That’s ...

How businesses get paid has a sizable downstream impact on the way they operate. And as businesses prioritize operational efficiency and working capital preservation, the B2B payments landscape is expected to ...

CellPoint Digital has teamed with Riskified to help battle fraud in the travel sector. The partnership, announced Thursday (Nov. 2), leverages Riskified’s fraud and risk intelligence capabilities and CellPoint’s payment orchestration offering to help airlines and ...

Sabre, a software and technology provider in the global travel industry, has partnered with CellPoint Digital, a payment solutions provider for the airline industry. Under the agreement, Sabre customers will now have ...

Hands In, a group payments platform, has partnered with CellPoint Digital, a provider of payment orchestration services. The collaboration aims to update the way groups pay together online, particularly in the ...

Air travel is complex. And that complexity trickles down to nearly every customer and airline touchpoint — particularly airline refunds, a process that has become a pressing issue for travelers and airlines. “Not ...

Kristian Gjerding, CEO at CellPoint Digital, told PYMNTS in a recent interview that amid the rise of open banking, faster payments and pay by bank’s continued embrace, there’s one thing that’s ...

Companies that had put off modernizing their infrastructure to readily utilize data may now be scrambling to join in the latest tech trend. The capabilities and capacity of artificial intelligence (AI) ...

When it comes to generative artificial intelligence (AI), it isn’t the sky that is falling. It’s the operational landscape that’s being reshaped. That’s because AI doesn’t replace labor, according to some business ...

Smaller merchants may need more help navigating the new rules than ever before. As reported by The Wall Street Journal in May, international trade deals are fading in favor of less ...

While generative artificial intelligence (AI) makes headlines, the technology has for years been driving efficiencies. Particularly within the payments space. Already, automated machine learning (ML) and predictive AI solutions are helping firms streamline formerly manual ...

CellPoint Digital has teamed with Mexico’s Grupo Xcaret to streamline travel payments. “With nearly 40 million foreign tourists expected to visit Mexico in 2023, having a secure, efficient and cross-border payment solution is ...

PYMNTS asked business leaders for their take on how to plan for the rest of 2023, and what they are telling their teams to focus on. Kristian Gjerding, co-founder and ...

As talk in payments circles turns more and more to localization and alternative payment methods (APMs), smart routing and payments orchestration is stepping up as a solution to the soft ...

Online grocery retailer Akwaaba has partnered with payments orchestration firm CellPoint Digital. Akwaaba is leveraging the firm’s payments orchestration solution to optimize its operations as it expands beyond the six countries ...

A glitch at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) sparked chaos in the airline sector this month. And in an interview with PYMNTS, Kristian Gjerding, CEO of CellPoint Digital, said the swirling ...

CellPoint Digital has announced a partnership with Radisson Hotel Group, in which the Group will use CellPoint Digital’s full payment orchestration platform for its 1,000 hotels in the Europe, Middle ...

Global payments orchestration platform CellPoint Digital has teamed up with Chargebacks911 to streamline chargeback prevention, management and resolution for clients. Chargebacks911 touts itself as “the first global company dedicated to helping ...

Global payment orchestration platform CellPoint Digital raised $25 million from Toscafund and its private equity arm, Penta Capital, according to a press release on Wednesday (Jan. 5). The fresh infusion of ...

FinTech firm CellPoint Digital has expanded its joint effort with Cebu Pacific Air to enable split payments and currency conversion for customers of the Philippines-based airline, according to a Wednesday ...

In A Decade of Digital Transformation in 12 Months, 46 C-suite executives spoke with PYMNTS for its Q2 eBook on what the world will look like as recovery rolls on ...

The last year has seen eCommerce take off in an explosive way across verticals as the entire world has woken up to its many merits. Those who had been holdouts ...

Payments orchestration may have made headlines in the last two or so years as the segment has gotten more attention, but it’s not nearly as new as it might feel. As ...

To focus only on the outsized impact the coronavirus inflicted on the travel industry would be a mistake, CellPoint Digital CEO Kristian Gjerding told Karen Webster in a recent ConnectedEconomy™ ...

Payments orchestration can feel a bit like a new thing to the market in the last few years, but it actually isn’t. Airlines and large global retailers have been doing some ...

For consumers, the payments industry has worked hard to take the friction out of every transaction. Look no further than contactless payments and their development over the past year for ...

Kristian Gjerding, CEO of CellPoint Digital, explains why payments orchestration is so critical to a modern payments ecosystem –and how it could help firms recover after the economic devastation of ...

Colombia-based Avianca Airlines announced Thursday (April 1) that it has partnered with CellPoint Digital to create an optimized payment ecosystem to improve customer experience and simplify the commercial airline’s internal ...

The year 2020 was inarguably brutal for airlines, which at the lowest point saw revenues drop by almost 80 percent year on year as the pandemic kept their customers locked ...

The ultimate goal in the payments world is invisibility — a transaction that happens so seamlessly that it fades into the background of a purchase path, barely registering in the ...

Travel commerce and payments firm CellPoint Digital and the airline-owned payment network UATP are in a deal with Southwest to let customers buy tickets and other services using Apple Pay, ...

CellPoint Mobile, which specializes in digital commerce and payment solutions for airlines and travel companies, today rebranded as CellPoint Digital with a new website and product offerings, the company said ...