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How Asia Is Revolutionizing The $70B X-Border Tuition Space

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As reported by the companies at the end of September, JCB cardholders will be able to pay tuition at more than 2,000 schools across the globe, which in turn use Flywire to facilitate international payments.

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NEW REPORT: How Managing X-Border Tuition Receivables Helps Manage Student Debt

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A new year is bringing new changes to the cross-border trade cycle, from logistics and freight to B2B payments. Recently, several companies swimming in the ever-shifting seas of global trade looked to fulfill their goal of making international payments less cumbersome with new solutions.

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Invoicing, Internationally, On The Fly And With Flywire

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As Karen Webster put it in an interview with Flywire CEO Mike Massaro , “a business receiving a payment from another business finds it difficult to reconcile and post that payment to their internal accounting records, given those many variables and inconsistencies.”.

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The Summer (Payments) Vacation Plan

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Massaro said getting Flywire on the radar of international students and their families typically starts and ends with the schools and universities marketing the solution, whether the messaging is on admission flyers, welcome packets, websites or even included alongside electronic bills.

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Learning Lessons In International Education Payments

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With so many international students, Carter said the university needed a service that could handle international payment receivables. Students can make payments on time with the portal in place and, in many cases, can attend the university without disruption while also avoiding debt. “We International Payment Plans.

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Contextual Commerce Comes To Higher Education

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To that end, cross-border payments firm Flywire and CashNet, which offers a payments platform focused on education-related payments, have entered into a new strategic relationship to help smooth friction in paying for studies abroad.