In the news release, point.me Launches Gateway, An All-In-One Platform That Puts Award Travel Booking Inside Banks And Loyalty Programs, issued 01-Oct-2026 by point.me over PR Newswire, we are advised by the company that updates have been made. The complete, corrected release follows:
point.me Launches Gateway, An All-In-One Platform That Puts Award Travel Booking Inside Banks And Loyalty Programs
Integrated platform combines real-time award pricing and availability with side-by-side points-and-cash comparison, transfer, and booking, all under the partner's own brand
NEW YORK, Oct. 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- point.me, the loyalty redemption platform for travelers, fintech, banks, and issuers, today launches Gateway, an all-in-one platform that gives financial institutions, fintech, and loyalty programs the ability to offer award travel search, comparison, transfer, and booking directly inside their own customer experience. The launch comes as loyalty currencies keep growing while remaining hard to use, with over 80% of US consumers having never transferred a point.
What is Gateway?
Gateway brings point.me's award search and booking technology into a financial institution's own product, so customers see real-time award pricing and availability, compare the value of their points side by side with cash, and book, all without leaving the bank's app or the program's website. Partners can be live in as little as 60 days, a fraction of the time and cost of building in-house.
point.me partners span both sides of the loyalty ecosystem. Building on the American Express partnership launched in 2024, point.me is now working with B2Bpay, an Australian business payments platform, to bring award travel rewards to its customers, delivering greater choice and access to more flights across more airlines.
"We are always looking for ways to give B2Bpay users more choice and more value. Partnering with point.me does that, giving our customers a host of amazing options for turning their B2B points into travel and helping us deliver an experience that is second to none," said Jane Grant, Chief of B2Bpay at Zenith Payments.
On the loyalty side, Flying Blue, the loyalty program of Air France-KLM, is working with point.me to reach travelers through the bank and fintech partners the two companies share.
"point.me has helped Flying Blue broaden our reach and introduce more travelers to the value of our program. Gateway takes that vision further, creating new ways for us to connect with high-value customers through our shared bank partners," said Ben Lipsey, President of Flying Blue and SVP Loyalty, Digital and Data at Air France-KLM. "It brings the richness of Flying Blue into the travel journey for those customers, and we're excited to continue deepening our partnership with point.me."
"People pick a card or join a program because they want the trip," said Adam Morvitz, founder and CEO of point.me. "Then they reach the part where they actually have to use the points, and it is confusing enough that most people never do. Gateway makes that part easy, inside the bank or program the customer already uses. When redeeming is simple, people use what they earned, and the rewards they signed up for finally show up as real trips."
What are the benefits of Gateway?
- One connected trip: Flights, hotels, and experiences in a single branded portal. Search, comparison, and booking happen inside the bank's app or the program's website, with no handoff to a third-party portal, so cardholders never leave the issuer's ecosystem.
- Seamless discovery: Customers see real-time award pricing and availability options across airline and hotel loyalty programs, inside an experience they already trust.
- Complete checkout: Built to fuel the earn-burn loop. Every award option is shown next to its cash equivalent, so customers can always decide whether to earn or burn points.
- Competitive intelligence: Redemption patterns, transfer behavior, and peer benchmarking for issuers and loyalty partners.
- Live in as little as 60 days: Partners launch in a fraction of the time and cost of building award travel capabilities in-house.
- Built for both sides of loyalty: Gateway strengthens both sides of the loyalty ecosystem by deepening connections between financial institutions and loyalty programs. As a result, financial institutions use Gateway to strengthen the value of their currency, and airline and hotel programs meet high-value customers as they plan travel inside one of their most-used apps.
Key takeaways
- All-in-one travel solution: point.me has launched Gateway, an all-in-one platform that lets financial institutions and loyalty programs embed award travel search, comparison, transfer, and booking under their own brand.
- Built to move to the front of the wallet: when redemption is frictionless, customers perceive the currency as more valuable, use it more often, and keep the card and the program at the front of their wallet.
- Partners on both sides of loyalty: great travel loyalty experiences are expensive and complex to build, and the experience is often fragmented across travel, loyalty, and rewards. point.me launches with B2Bpay on the financial side and Flying Blue on the loyalty side.
"Every bank and every travel program is asking how to make its currency feel valuable, trusted, and worth holding. Gateway is how they answer that question inside their own experience, in weeks, not years," Morvitz added.
How to get started with Gateway
Gateway is available today to financial institutions, fintechs, and loyalty programs. To learn more or request a demonstration, visit point.me/partnerships. Travelers can continue to search and book award travel directly at point.me.
About point.me
point.me is the leading award travel search platform powering the future of loyalty. Founded in 2022, point.me transforms travelers' points and miles into more buying power, for consumers directly, and for the financial institutions that serve them.
point.me helps travelers unlock and use their points with confidence across 150+ credit cards and loyalty programs, while enabling banks and fintechs to embed a complete travel and lifestyle redemption experience directly in their app. Already trusted by millions of travelers and backed by leading financial institutions, point.me is changing how people think about paying for travel.
Named to Fast Company's World's Most Innovative Companies list in 2024 and 2025, point.me is backed by investors including Nyca Partners, Citi Ventures, Samsung, the founders of ITA Software (Google Flights), Thayer, Jeffrey Katzenberg's WndrCo, Brian Kelly (The Points Guy), Meta and DoorDash executives, and Bethenny Frankel, alongside other top-tier venture firms.
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