Mia Share has raised $6.5 million in a seed round to grow its platform that streamlines digital payment options for trade and technical schools. The firm will use the new capital to add product features, onboard new users and expand its customer service team, Mia Share...
Flutterwave has launched a product to help African students pay school fees when studying abroad and at home. The new payment product, Tuition, will enable African users to conveniently pay fees to educational institutions both within Africa and overseas by using their local currencies, the payments technology...
Colleges face a new financial hurdle: employers dropping degree requirements for prospective hires. Higher learning institutions are battling unprecedented pressure to maintain enrollment numbers. A tight labor market plus prolonged inflation has stressed the already-inefficient legacy payments system burdening many colleges. And there is a...
PYMNTS interviewed Adam McDonald, president at TouchNet, on how the company is helping colleges and universities simplify and modernize their payments infrastructure — At a time when businesses everywhere are adapting to meet customers’ increasing expectations for digital payment methods and technology-driven interactions, institutions of...
July 31, 2020
Universities are all about giving students learning experiences, but having one themselves isn’t usually standard operating procedure. Ever since schools worldwide began shutting their campuses due to the pandemic, nothing in higher education has been normal, as Sharon Butler, executive vice president of global education at Flywire, told Karen Webster. Butler, whose firm serves as […]
October 11, 2019
Pay local — on a global scale. To that end, Flywire said at the end of last month that it has partnered with JCB International in a relationship that provides...
August 30, 2019
Here’s a thought as the unofficial end of summer draws near and a new decade looms: Pay more attention to Vietnam. No doubt you already are, but maybe pay even...
August 01, 2019
Call it the $1.6 trillion challenge. College is a rite of passage for some, a dream for others and a financial challenge for just about everyone who strives for a...
May 28, 2024
Consumers are more likely to expect an expansion of public assistance programs than they were a year ago. Among the programs about which they have increased optimism are federal student aid, student debt forgiveness, federal welfare programs, unemployment benefits and the federal minimum wage, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Center for Microeconomic Data […]
February 12, 2024
Mia Share has raised $6.5 million in a seed round to grow its platform that streamlines digital payment options for trade and technical schools. The firm will use the new capital...
July 11, 2023
Flutterwave has launched a product to help African students pay school fees when studying abroad and at home. The new payment product, Tuition, will enable African users to conveniently pay fees to...
November 10, 2021
Payitoff, an automated student loan management company serving the FinTech sector, has generated $8.5 million in a seed round, according to a Wednesday (Nov. 10) press release. Led by Lightspeed...
