Global survey confirms continuing increase in virtual card use. Virtual cards are closing the gap, particularly for less-frequent travelers – 51 percent of business travelers only take between one and three trips a year.

BCC Corporate, a pioneering credit card development company in Belgium, officially becomes AirPlus International, a subsidiary of the German group Lufthansa AirPlus Servicekarten GmbH (AirPlus Group).

The number of business trips, and the cost of those trips, is set to rise in 2019, according to the 14th annual International Travel Management Study (22 October 2018) from AirPlus International. Almost half (45 percent) of the 777 corporate travel managers surveyed by AirPlus in 24 countries expect their company to travel more in the year ahead. That figure is up from 35 percent in 2018 and the highest since the global financial crisis of the late 2000s.

New integration combines expanded choice, freedom and flexibility with a transparent, centralised payment option for corporate customers

AirPlus International, a leading global provider of payment and billing solutions for business travel, has announced today the closing of the takeover of BCC Corporate (BCCC), the Belgian Visa and MasterCard corporate card issuer, and previously subsidiary of Alpha Card Group. Nicolas Ancot and Michael Fürer are appointed general managers of the Belgian corporate credit card issuer in a promising local growing market despite a challenging environment.

AirPlus International has announced today that they have signed an agreement to acquire BCC Corporate (BCCC), the Belgian Visa and MasterCard corporate card issuer, and subsidiary of Alpha Card Group. For AirPlus, global provider of business travel payment solutions, this transaction forms part of its growth strategy in Europe based on virtual and mobile payment solutions.