Latest NewsHBX Group selects Outpayce as strategic partner to power global Fintech transformation
London, 5 March 2026.- HBX Group (HBX.SM), a leading B2B travel technology marketplace, today announced a strategic partnership with Outpayce from Amadeus, to accelerate the development of its Fintech capabilities and transform how travel buyers and sellers manage digital payments.
Through this collaboration, HBX Group will deploy Outpayce’s cloud native Fintech platform to launch a new Payment Program designed to simplify and automate how travel agencies pay hotels, airlines, travel aggregators and destination service providers.The platform integrates issuing and financial services capabilities with travel-specific features such as enhanced reconciliation and advanced cybersecurity. Both companies also plan to extend the solution to support inbound (pay-in) flows, enabling a fully connected, end-to-end payments ecosystem.
Travel partners across the HBX Group network will benefit from virtual cards issued by Outpayce, real-time data insights, seamless integration with Outpayce B2B Wallet, and a dedicated B2B Wallet Portal to streamline reporting and settlement processes. These combined capabilities improve payment acceptance, drive operational efficiency, and reduce manual effort across the industry.
As part of the agreement, Outpayce becomes a strategic virtual card issuing partner. HBX Group adopts Outpayce B2B Wallet to power its own supplier payment flows, strengthening acceptance across billions of euros in annual transactions and supporting the Group’s long-term Fintech strategy.
Daniel Nordholm, Chief Information Officer, HBX Group said: “Fintech is a powerful growth engine for HBX Group. By partnering with Outpayce, we are merging deep travel expertise with advanced payment technology to create meaningful value for our ecosystem. This collaboration enables us to modernize financial processes, automate at scale, and unlock new efficiencies across the entire travel value chain. We’re already seeing impact across our trade partner flows and are now focused on delivering the same seamless, end-to-end experience to travel sellers worldwide".
Sam Abdou, CEO, Outpayce said: “This partnership marks a major milestone for Outpayce, validating our strategy to secure an e-Money license and develop a cloud-native issuing stack from the ground up that’s specifically designed for the travel industry. With HBX Group, we’re already issuing virtual cards at significant scale as well as working towards pay-in scenarios and we see huge potential to expand both servicesacross the travel ecosystem.”
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About HBX Group
HBX Group is a leading global B2B travel technology marketplace that owns and operates Hotelbeds, Bedsonline, The Luxurist, Roiback and Civitfun. We offer a network of interconnected travel technology products and services to partners including online marketplaces, tour operators, travel advisors, airlines, loyalty programmes, destinations, and travel suppliers.
Our vision is to simplify the complex and fragmented travel industry through a combination of cloud-based technology solutions, curated data, and a broad portfolio of products designed to maximise revenue. HBX Group is present in more than 170 countries and employs more than 3,500 people worldwide. We are committed to making travel a force for good, creating a positive social and environmental impact.
HBX Group International PLC (HBX.SM) is listed on the Spanish Stock Exchange, ISIN:GB00BNXJB679.
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About Outpayce
Amadeus makes the experience of travel better for everyone, everywhere by inspiring innovation, partnerships and responsibility to people, places and planet. As a wholly-owned company, Outpayce from Amadeus is the next step in scaling the Amadeus payments business with fresh investment in talent, an open API platform and a license to deliver new regulated payment services.
Outpayce delivers smoother end-to-end travel experiences making travel payments simple. Our open platform connects FinTech and banking service providers to the entire travel ecosystem, allowing customers and travelers to easily benefit from new advances in payments.
Outpayce Xchange Payment Platform (XPP) solves challenges in areas like authentication, acceptance and foreign exchange (FX) for travel merchants and gives access to partners that resolve areas like fraud management and authentication to offer a smoother overall experience for the traveler.
In the B2B payments space, Outpayce orchestrates payments with a range of virtual cards, currencies and payment methods to optimize cost, acceptance and agility wherever a travel seller needs to pay a supplier.
Outpayce delivers an end-to-end experience by continuing to work with all Amadeus’ teams and embedding its capabilities in all of Amadeus' applications. The future is travel simply paid.
To find out more about Outpayce, visitwww.outpayce.com.
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