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The FinTech IPO Index gains 0.6%, with only a bit of earnings in the mix — and with a spate of partnership announcements dominating the headlines. Katapult Leads the Way Katapult said ...

Flywire and Tencent Financial Technology have teamed up to provide a convenient way for Chinese students to make international tuition payments. This partnership will use the digital wallet Weixin Pay (WeChat Pay) to provide a seamless ...

Flywire and FranConnect have partnered on a B2B payments solution for franchisors. The addition of Flywire’s global payments enablement and software to FranConnect’s franchise management technology will make it easier for ...

Not everything was about crypto-land these past several days in the tech space.  Of course, you’d be hard-pressed to think that anything happened other than FTX’s meltdown, bankruptcy filing, and seismic ...

Payments software company Flywire has teamed up with India’s HDFC Bank to help students in India pay education fees at institutions around the world. The companies said in a Thursday (Nov. 17) ...

The market routs continue, pretty much everywhere one looks. The worries over rate hikes and inflation show no signs of easing — and tech stocks continue to take a drubbing. To that ...

Today in B2B payments, Hello Alice has launched a small business credit card to help increase the availability of credit, while payroll, HR and accounting tech firm The Sage Group ...

For the FinTech IPO names, now comes the true test. Earnings season. Wednesday, JPMorgan signaled that the U.S. remains in good shape, in terms of credit and propensity to spend. But macro ...

Global payments enablement and software company Flywire has acquired international education payments platform Cohort Go to bring students, agents and student services to Flywire, according to a joint press release ...

A gain. A small one, but a gain nonetheless. The FinTech IPO Tracker got a bit of a breather this week, clawing out a 73-basis-point rise, and for now, investors may ...

Today in B2B payments, a lack of in-house know-how hinders companies’ attempts to digitize, while buy now, pay later (BNPL) connects buyers and suppliers. Plus, Billtrust and Flywire modernize B2B ...

To the casual observer, earnings season may be all about the consumer — how they’re spending, what they’re buying and whether they’re using credit or debit. However, depending on where you ...

For B2B technology firms, being able to offer subscription and payment plan flexibility is both a key priority and a challenge. This reality helps explain why billing and subscription management tops ...

Most large companies in the travel and tourism sectors are unhappy with their approaches to payments management, PYMNTS research has found. The majority of the financial leaders in these sectors rate ...

Today in the connected economy, Amazon unveils Amp, a social mobile audio app designed to compete with Clubhouse, while TrueCar launches TrueCar+, a car buying platform. Plus, ACI Worldwide becomes ...

Competition and market demand are creating opportunities for technology firms, but they are also making back-office payment frictions worse. While the tech sector has fared far more favorably than others because ...

Boston-based global payments platform Flywire Corporation has formed a strategic partnership with education technology firm Tribal Group, according to a Tuesday (March 8) press release. The partnership will see U.K.-based Tribal ...

Flywire said its total payments volume in the fourth quarter surged 75% to $3.1 billion, underpinned by growth in cross-border and domestic transactions, and particular demand in education and other ...

In today’s top Europe, Middle East, and Africa news, a coalition has asked EU lawmakers for changes in the Digital Markets Act to allow consumers to sue tech giants for ...

Today in the connected economy, DoorDash launches an integration with Google, while rival Grubhub forms a partnership with 15-minute grocery service Buyk. Plus, Revolut unveils a travel tool that lets ...

Global payments platform Flywire Corporation on Wednesday (Feb. 23) integrated with Adapt IT Education, a division of Adapt IT Holdings Limited, to digitize cross-border education payments for students in South ...

Today in the connected economy, Crypto.com works with Worldpay to offer merchant acquiring services to help Crypto.org’s global expansion plans, and Flywire and Ascensus collaborate to make payments from 529 ...

Payments platform Flywire and savings facilitator Ascensus have joined forces to digitize and streamline tuition payments from 529 college savings plans to colleges and universities across the U.S. The partnership, announced ...

As consumers demand more digital-first engagement, software is transforming payment processes to meet critical business needs across industries, says Mike Massaro, CEO of Flywire. Read his thoughts in the ...

Global payments platform Flywire has acquired WPM, a payments software provider for colleges and universities in the U.K. “The acquisition will build on Flywire’s existing education payments business to scale its ...

As we get a clearer idea of the extent of travel and tourism disruption from the pandemic, companies are zeroing in on payments management to get the sector moving again. Noting ...

Global payments platform Flywire Corporation on Tuesday (Nov. 9) reported 61% revenue growth to $67.8 million for the third quarter of fiscal 2021, up from $42.1 million in 2020, as ...

The collapse in income following the pandemic’s onset in March 2020 sent a shockwave through the travel and tourism sector. Large travel and tourism firms in the United States — ...

With major airlines reporting their first quarterly profits since the onset of the pandemic, restrictions easing both domestically and internationally, and the roll-out of vaccinations grinding forward, the travel bug ...

Customer experience management company Quadient has announced a new collaboration with payments platform Flywire.  The companies say this partnership will see Quadient’s accounts receivable Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution YayPay extend Flywire’s ...

It’s hard to quantify precisely, but COVID-19 clearly took a toll on enrollment at schools and colleges over the past few semesters. A combination of health concerns, remote learning restrictions, ...

Change — real change, the inexorable kind that transforms payments and commerce — can move with lightning speed. Or it can be positively glacial. As Flywire CEO Mike Massaro told Karen ...

Today in healthcare: Businesses, organizations and governments are updating their COVID-19 rules to bring back masks. Plus, PharmEasy is considering a $1 billion IPO for its Mumbai-based online healthcare and ...

Flywire, which focuses on high-value payments in healthcare, education and travel, reported Tuesday (Aug. 10) that its total payments volume soared 85 percent year over year to $1.9 billion in ...

That the pandemic dealt a blow to education writ large is without question. And while some colleges and universities actually saw enrollment rise during lockdowns and pivot to distance learning, ...

The Smart Receivables Playbook: Rethinking Tuition Payments In A Time Of Transformation, a PYMNTS and Flywire collaboration, offers an on-the-ground perspective on how higher education institutions are adapting to the ...

In A Decade of Digital Transformation in 12 Months, 46 C-suite executives spoke with PYMNTS for its Q2 eBook on what the world will look like as recovery rolls on ...

Almost a year and a half into a global pandemic and forecasts for the travel segment are hard to make as recovery remains uneven. In some places, infection levels are falling ...

Listing activity quickened a bit into  holiday weekend, adding to year-to-date tallies. The PYMNTS IPO/SPAC Tracker recorded that through the end of the last week in May (and headed into Memorial Day ...

In today’s top news, Paymentus and Flywire both began trading on Wednesday (May 26), and Forter raised $300 million for its eCommerce fraud prevention platform. Plus, ACI Worldwide and J.P. ...

Two U.S. payments platforms — Paymentus and Flywire — are seeking initial public offerings at the top of their marketed range. Both started trading on Wednesday (May 26) and are ...

In this week’s news, we saw a report that the Justice Department is conducting a civil probe into whether some FinTechs distributing Payroll Protection Program (PPP) relief botched loan sizes. ...

Buy now, pay later (BNPL), which for the last several years suddenly seemed to be everywhere, has been conspicuously slow in coming to the travel vertical. The explanation for why, Flywire ...

In today’s top news, China’s digital yuan trials have been expanded to Alipay users, and the U.S. Department of Justice is investigating how several FinTechs, such as Kabbage, distributed PPP loans. Plus, ...

The parade of “disruptors” in the financial services and payments spaces — via public listings on Wall Street — continues. Affirm went public earlier this year. SoFi announced plans to go public ...