Navan will offer its travel and expense management tools to Citizens Financial Group corporate cardholders under the terms of a new agreement, the companies announced Tuesday.

Navan’s Connect technology will allow Citizens’ corporate card clients integrated access to a travel and expense platform with joint branding, Navan said in a blog post. 

“The new co-branded travel and expense platform is designed specifically for Citizens, offering its commercial card customers a T&E solution with the modern experience they have come to expect,” Navan Expense CEO Michael Sindicich said in a statement.

Available now, Navan will bill Citizens clients for use of the platform, a spokesperson confirmed to BTN, adding that Citizens “is considering” the possibility of using the feature as a value-add at some point.

Citizens is a U.S regional bank that operates predominantly in New England, the Northeast and the Mid-Atlantic regions. 

The partnership is the latest between Navan and a large financial services provider. Navan last year partnered with Citi to offer Citi Commercial Bank cardholders jointly branded travel and expense product using Navan Connect technology.

It also furthers a trend of tying travel and expense features to corporate cards, a key angle that some travel suppliers are using to approach in particular the small and midsized market. Navan CEO Ariel Cohen last year told BTN that the company’s travel value proposition can attract CFOs to the notion of a well-managed program.

Azul currently has more than 150 domestic routes in Brazil and seven to international destinations, such as Orlando, Fort Lauderdale, Lisbon or Paris. It transports more than 28 million passengers a year, operates more than 27,000 monthly flights and was chosen by Tripadvisor as the best airline in the world in 2020.

The company was founded in Campinas (Brazil) in December 2008, when it launched two flights to Salvador de Bahia and Porto Alegre. It currently offers commercial flights, cargo and shipping, and Azul Conecta, a more exclusive service for aircraft with up to 9 passengers that offers rental, training for other airlines in Cessna Grand Caravans, and aeronautical consulting.

Currently headquartered in Sao Paulo, it operates a diverse fleet containing Airbus A320, A321, A330, ATR, Cessna Grand Caravan and Embraer E1 and E2.

Antonio López-Lázaro, CEO of Euroairlines Group, highly values ​​the alliance and praises the Brazilian airline’s business model. “We are very proud to be able to contribute to the leading airline in Brazil having a greater presence in the world thanks to our distribution network,” explains López-Lázaro. Guillermo López-Lázaro, Director of Markets and Channels at Euroairlines, highlights the business model of the Brazilian airline. “It has a modern and attractive business model adapted to the new demands of passengers, which has led it in 15 years to be a leader and an example of growth in Brazil and transatlantic operations,” adds the director of Markets and Channels of the Spanish company.

“Connectivity has always been part of Azul’s DNA, and the partnership with Euroairlines Group came about as part of a larger movement by the company, which is to use this feature to increase our international presence. We are offering our customers more destination options with the quality and experience that are already part of our brand,” says André Mercadante, Azul’s Director of Partnerships and Network Planning.