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July 10, 2017

Disbursements Tracker™

NEW REPORT: Travel Insurance Gets Upgrade With Faster Claims
 

Between lost luggage, bad weather and guys getting dragged off planes, there’s plenty that can go wrong with vacation plans. For the July PYMNTS Disbursements Tracker™, powered by Ingo Money, PYMNTS checks in with Joe Mason, Allianz Global Assistance’s chief marketing officer, about how disbursement solutions help exasperated travelers correct course on disrupted vacation plans. Plus, a deep data dive on corporate travel and 10 new additions to the provider directory, inside this month’s Tracker.

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“Digital First” Payments

Visa’s Long-Term View On Klarna
 

Visa just took an equity stake in Klarna with strategic intent as a motivator. Here’s what lies behind the nascent partnership, looking toward Europe, digital payments and even the Internet of Things, as Bill Gajda, Visa’s SVP of Innovation and Strategic Investments, tells Karen Webster.
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PYMNTS Topic TBD

Corporate Travel’s $1.25T Rewards Opportunity
 

Companies spend $1.25T, yes trillion, annually on business travel. So it’s no wonder that they want to find ways to cajole employees to spend less on their business trips. In the latest Topic TBD, Rocketrip CEO Dan Ruch explains how some of the biggest companies in the world are using an unusual rewards play that helps them do that, while answering the age-old question: What’s in it for the employee if they play along?

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Innovation and Regulation

Confused EU Regulators Slam Google
 

Does anyone else find it even mildly ironic that Google was just fined $2.7 billion in the EU for dominating an area that it doesn’t dominate? Karen Webster does, and she says the European Commission was so focused on the online search for products over the last seven years they failed to see consumers increasingly don’t start their product searches there anymore. Missing that forest for the trees, she says, has some sobering lessons for all innovators — and should for regulators.

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