Flywire and JCB Offer New Payment Option for International Students

  • Payments
  • 30.09.2019 12:06 pm

Flywire and JCB International, Co., Ltd. (JCBI), the international operations subsidiary of JCB Co., Ltd., today announced a new partnership that provides international students with a new method for making cross-border tuition payments. The program, which officially launched on September 27, allows cardholders in select countries and regions mainly in Asia to use their JCB card to pay tuition at any one of the 2,000 plus schools around the world that offer Flywire for international payments. 

For the first time, students and their families will be able to use their JCB card to pay international tuition via Flywire’s platform in their local currency. Initially, the program will be available to students originating in the following countries and paying in the following currencies: Japanese yen (JPY), Vietnamese dong (VND), Korean won (KRW), New Taiwan dollar (TWD), Chinese yuan (CNY), Philippine peso (PHP), Thai baht (THB), Indonesian rupiah (IDR), Russian ruble (RUB), Hong Kong dollar (HKD), Singapore dollar (SGD), and Myanmar Kyat (MMK).

Flywire is the payment solution of choice for international students and education institutions around the world. The platform provides a single point of management and payer engagement from billing and payment through reconciliation. Schools can offer students and families a highly-tailored, convenient and secure payment experience – customized by school, country and regions, and currency – while accelerating funds flow and streamlining operational expense.

“We are always pursuing new payment options for our client schools to offer students and their families,” said Ryan Frere, vice president of global payments for Flywire. “With JCB, we are activating a very popular payment method in many of the world’s largest and fastest-growing markets for international students. Schools can offer more convenient, local tuition payment options and JCB can enhance services for many of its 130 million plus cardholders.”   

“We are delighted to deliver the news of our partnership with such an innovative and highly reputable company in the payment industry,” Mr. Hitoshi Shioda, EVP, Head of Global Acceptance & Marketing HQ of JCBI said. “With our goal to provide high quality service to JCB cardmembers in various markets, Flywire is the perfect partner to satisfy rapidly growing customer needs in tuition payment.”

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