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NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Founded this year by Sim Shagaya, uLesson is working to lesson educational gaps in the region by integrating mobile platforms, SD cards, cultural curriculum and a network of tutors. Nigerian startup uLesson has raised a $3.1 million seed round led by TLcom Capital. The company is headquartered in Lagos with a production studio in Jos.

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JUNE 1, 2020

Americans are known the world over for many things, but financial literacy isn’t one of them. We’re not known for being a nation of expert money managers.

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JULY 21, 2020

Flywire has teamed with China’s international education industry association BOSSA to bring its cross-border payment services to more Chinese students traveling to other countries.

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OCTOBER 11, 2019

To that end, Flywire said at the end of last month that it has partnered with JCB International in a relationship that provides international students in Asia with options as they make cross-border tuition payments. Pay local — on a global scale.

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JANUARY 3, 2020

Grade schools and colleges could use a massive textbook dedicated to payments – their own.

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DECEMBER 15, 2017

Complex on so many levels, especially when it comes to payments and, more specifically, invoicing, where demands for payment are tracked through paper and electronic means. Life is full of complexity. Life for a small- to mid-sized business (SMB) scaling operations into new countries?

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JANUARY 15, 2018

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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SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

One of the biggest anxieties for businesses participating in the global economy is the potential of late or (worse) non-payment from an international partner, which can cause cash flow issues and, ultimately, hurt the bottom line.

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APRIL 27, 2016

In a press release announcing Flywire’s launch of a cross-border payments service in Japan, CEO Mike Massaro described the country as one of the keys in Flywire’s APAC expansion.

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JUNE 7, 2016

Time for sun, fun … and tuition payment processing? With the fall term quickly approaching, these institutions are preparing for the wave of student application and tuition payments coming from international students and their financial institutions overseas. It’s that time of year again. Yes, you read that correctly.

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JANUARY 23, 2020

More online options and real-time payment rails have cropped up in the U.S. End consumers share in this confusion, and research shows many are still unaware of instant payments as alternative options. The instant payments education gap. real-time payments are much more competitive and saturated than a few years ago.

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JANUARY 16, 2018

While the number of students seeking international education has steadily increased, the challenges they face have largely remained the same. Researchers have found that roughly 4.7 million students left their homes to study abroad in 2017, up more than 100 percent from the 2.1 million who did so in 2001.

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JUNE 9, 2017

Few payments can seem as daunting as tuition payments. Not just because they are investments in a child’s future, or because parents have scrimped and saved to make them.

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