Mastercard and TripLink today announced the expansion oftheir partnership from Hong Kong to Asia Pacific, introducing a seamless and reliable cross border payment experience for businesses to enhance travel recovery.
TripLink can now issue virtual cards for its Asia Pacific businesses and suppliers especially in the tourism industry. As the sector is experiencing soaring B2B payment needs, sales are increasingly conducted in varying foreign currencies, the process has been simplified thanks to Mastercard’s global network.
The agreement between Mastercard and TripLink, originally signed for local collaboration in 2019, has now been extended across the entire Asia Pacific region. The region-wide expansion providesbusinesses with faster, safer and more convenient cross-border transactions while consumers prepare to travel and transact overseas.
The partnership expansion launches amid a resurgence of cross-border business in the tourism industry, which has seen a sharp rebound in travel across Asia Pacific in 2022. A recent reportby the Mastercard Economics Institute highlighted the strength of pent-up demand, suggesting that if flight booking trends continue at the current pace, an estimated 430 million more passengers will fly in Asia Pacific compared to last year.
Wang Zhe, Chief Executive Officer, TripLink International, said, “The partnership between TripLink and Mastercard since 2019 has been a huge success, and we now look forward to deepening our collaboration in more aspects and regions! With an increasing number of consumers shifting to digital-first lifestyle and payment means, it is crucial for our corporate customers to cater to these emerging trends, and to improve their cross-border payment capability.
To catch up with the evolving needs for a more seamless and secure payment experience, we will speed up the relevant development and try to gain mutual growth with our customers.”
Dennis Chang, Executive Vice President and Division President of Greater China, Mastercard, said, “Mastercard is committed to supporting businesses across diverse industries by providing reliable, safe and secure cross-border payments in every possible way. Amid continued growth in the business-to-business payment market, Mastercard is collaborating with more enterprises to capture opportunities via its multi-rail strategy. This expanded partnership with TripLink reinforces this approach, and will further support the development of a more digital, sustainable and connected economy.”
By providing highly customized services that offer both portal and API integration options for a seamless card management experience, the TripLink Mastercard solution addresses challengessuch as lengthy and slow processing as well as high administrative fees. With the payment option provided by TripLink, merchants and suppliers are assured of having a smooth and user-friendly process from registration to application.
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