Closed-loop fuel card models were built for a different era. One where controlling the network meant controlling the customer, the transaction, and ultimately the margin. Fuel card issuers face rising pressure from regulation, fraud, and changing customer expectations. This article explores why outsourcing issuing platforms and adopting open-loop mobility solutions is becoming essential for scalability, compliance, and future growth in Europe’s evolving fleet and energy lands

This article explores why fragmented telematics and payment systems create costly blind spots in commercial road transport. It shows how real-time integration between telematics and payment authorisation can reduce fraud, prevent leakage, improve compliance, and unlock operational efficiency. For CRT operators, unified data is no longer optional—it’s becoming a strategic and competitive necessity.

Cardless payments are often seen as the future of commercial road transport, but not all cardless models work in CRT. This article explores why app-based solutions struggle to scale and how one-time codes, tokenisation, and real-time controls offer a more practical, CRT-native path forward—without breaking existing authorisation and settlement infrastructure.

Great Tech, Wrong Segment? explores the widening gap between the mobility payments innovation being built today and the realities of the commercial road transport (CRT) sector. While B2B mobility solutions have rapidly evolved—introducing in-app payments, tokenisation, machine-learning fraud checks, digital receipts, and real-time data feeds—the article argues that most of this innovation is still designed around corporate car fleet logic, not the demanding world of internati

Loyalty programmes are quickly becoming a staple of modern mobility services. From fuel networks and car-sharing apps to multimodal travel platforms, rewards have become part of the user experience. But when loyalty overlaps with work-related mobility, the lines begin to blur. If an employee earns points while using a company-funded mobility card, who do those rewards belong to; the company or the individual? Should they be taxed, tracked, or declared as part of employment in

When it comes to open-loop fleet cards, one question keeps resurfacing: how do you balance compliance with practicality? The Driver Card that requires a new PIN for rotating drivers, and card-based KYC processes with unnecessary steps that slow down onboarding. The open-loop future will depend on collaboration between schemes, issuers and fleet experts to define what “good” looks like. This is our take in a common-sense framework that works for schemes, issuers and the fleet

Fuel cards were built for closed-loop networks. Tightly controlled, limited in scope, and optimised for a single purpose.nToday’s mobility environment is open and interoperable. You need to support EV chargin, multimodal journeys, flexible employee allowance, mobility budgets. You need payments that scale across different services, locations, and regulations, while maintaining control. If your current setup is slowing you down, we’ll help you build what's next.