After growing technology businesses at every stage and across different industries, Daniel Marovitz joined Booking.com to introduce payments into its then-basic hotel-booking service. As senior vice president of fintech, Marovitz is enabling the company to achieve its vision to remove financial friction from travel. His cross-functional team focuses on the financial systems, payment solutions, and innovative financial products that strengthen Booking.com’s position as the platform of choice for customers worldwide to arrange lodging, transportation, and more. In this episode, he speaks with McKinsey partner and payments industry expert Uzayr Jeenah about what makes transactions especially complex in the travel industry and how streamlining payments eases customers’ pain points.

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