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Payhawk

FINANCE
Velocity6.3

Payhawk builds out travel management on top of its spend platform

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Current state
Payhawk's releases show two pushes. First, Payhawk Travel is maturing into a full T&E offering, admin booking on behalf of employees, travel allowances in policy, baggage selection and smart bundles, and in-app trip changes. Second, its EMI banking infrastructure keeps widening: GBP accounts for EU customers, CHF and more holdable currencies, German open-banking top-ups, end-to-end bulk payments, and a new layered payment-fraud-prevention system.
Where it's heading
Payhawk is converging spend management, multi-currency banking, and travel into one finance platform, owning more of where corporate money moves and how it is controlled. The fraud-prevention and master-data-sync work signals enterprise-grade hardening to support that breadth.
Prediction
Expect Travel to keep expanding toward parity with dedicated TMCs and more currency and market coverage on the EMI rails.

Recent moves

  1. 5d ago

    Note builder

  2. 9d ago

    Booking on behalf of others

    Admins can now book travel on behalf of any employee, with that employee's policy and approvals applied automatically. Fills an obvious gap in Payhawk Travel's coverage.

  3. 29d ago

    Trips changes

    Closes the loop on in-app travel: bookings can now be modified or cancelled inside Payhawk with fare conditions surfaced before commitment. Removes the most common reason users were still bouncing out to airline sites mid-trip.

  4. 29d ago

    Baggage selection & smart bundles

    Baggage can be added at checkout with smart bundles suggested when a fare excludes luggage. A travel-booking detail that improves the booking experience.

  5. 29d ago

    Travel allowance in policy

    Travel allowances can be set in policy and applied to every trip automatically. Policy-driven control for the growing Travel product.

  6. 29d ago

    GBP Accounts Now Available for EU Customers