Under a multi-year agreement, Costa Cruises will initially provide the Brightwell Navigator payments platform to approximately 10,000 staff on 15 cruise ships.
Future plans include expansion of the global payroll solution to an additional 8,000 shipboard employees.
The Brightwell Navigator payments platform integrates to existing payroll software and is a mobile and web-based technology that provides access to cash, money transfer services, and prepaid cards.
The platform is designed to meet the rapidly changing financial needs of a geographically dispersed, multinational, group of shipboard employees.
Mike Gaburo, ceo of Brightwell Payments said, 'the ability for ship-based staff to easily access, transfer, and use funds is vital part of employee welfare and crew care. We’re committed to helping Costa enhance the employee experience, gain administrative efficiencies, enhance security, reduce fraud risk, and lower transaction costs.'
The platofrm allows crew to self-manage their pay at any time with features that include automatic transfers to bank accounts, payment directly to the OceanPay® Card (in both USD and EUR), and/or the transfer of funds to over 500,000 retail money transfer agents around the world.
More than 300 customers and 200,000 individuals choose Brightwell to make over $700m in secure, cost-effective global payments each year.
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