Modern Treasury Modernizes Travel and Safety With Navan

Region

NORAM: North America

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Industry

Finance

Products Used

• Navan Business Travel
• Navan Travel Payments

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Modern Treasury provides trusted infrastructure for money movement, helping teams launch and scale payment experiences in days, not months. Headquartered in San Francisco, the company helps organizations move money instantly and reliably through best-in-class developer tools and a single API for fiat and stablecoins, with compliance and ledgering built-in. That same emphasis on control, visibility, and scalability shapes how Modern Treasury manages its own spend, compliance, and employee experience — and ultimately led the team to choose Navan.

All of those factors have played a role in the company’s corporate travel program, which Katie Strain, head of real estate and workplace technology, has been deeply involved in. Strain, who sits on Modern Treasury’s HR team, has been the point person for creating systems and processes that support employees while giving the business the oversight it needs as it grows.

Before Navan

Before Navan, managing travel at Modern Treasury was scattered across booking sites, said Strain. Employees booked travel however they wanted, using their own preferred sites and tools. As a result, the company had no centralized way to track spend, monitor bookings, or understand where employees were traveling.

This lack of visibility created real challenges — especially when it came to traveler safety. “If there was a hurricane somewhere, I would have no idea who was where or how to help them,” said Strain. Without a single source of truth, managing travel was reactive and stressful, making it difficult to support employees or ensure the company was meeting its duty of care obligation.

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This is my third job where I have recommended Navan. It’s really easy and intuitive, and I don’t have to train employees on how to use it. They just get it.

Katie Strain

Why Navan

When it came time to evaluate new travel solutions, Strain already knew which one she wanted. “This is my third job where I have recommended Navan,” she said. 

“It’s really easy and intuitive, and I don’t have to train employees on how to use it. They just get it.” Ease of use was critical, but it wasn’t the only factor. Modern Treasury also needed stronger safety measures and real-time visibility into where employees were traveling. Navan’s ability to centralize bookings, surface traveler data, and provide built-in safeguards gave Strain confidence that employees would be supported — no matter where they were in the world.

Results with Navan

With Navan, Strain was able to put clear travel policies in place without becoming the “policy police.” She no longer has to spend time stressing about out-of-policy bookings or resolving issues after the fact.

The impact on her day-to-day workload has been dramatic. “I went from spending five hours a week managing travel-related tasks to only 30 minutes now. Navan has saved me so much time,” said Strain. That reclaimed time allows her to focus on more strategic work instead of troubleshooting bookings.

Employees across Modern Treasury have embraced Navan as well. They appreciate having a single source of truth for travel, and consistently describe the app as so intuitive that they require little to no guidance to get started.

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I went from spending five hours a week managing travel-related tasks to only 30 minutes now. Navan has saved me so much time.

Katie Strain

Future with Navan

For Modern Treasury, Navan delivers the same benefits the company strives to provide its own customers: clarity, control, and simplicity. By offering full visibility into spend, built-in safety measures, and an experience employees genuinely enjoy using, Navan has transformed the company’s travel program from a source of stress into a streamlined, scalable system.

And for Strain — an employee experience leader and a traveler herself — implementing Navan for the third time has reinforced her confidence in the platform as a key lever for success.