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| TRENDING: How Managing X-Border Tuition Receivables Helps Manage Student Debt
At 33 percent, Florida Institute of Technology's international student population is higher than any other U.S. university. Accommodating those students includes managing the friction associated with receiving tuition payments from overseas banks, says Terri Carter, Florida Techâs student financial services director. In the latest PYMNTS X-Border Receivables Report, powered by Flywire, Carter explains how FIT cracked the code on managing cross-border tuition receivables while helping its students avoid falling into the costly student debt trap. Read More... |
| Visa: Whatâs Driving Automotive's Great Commerce Shift
A few years ago, automotive OEMs had one thing on their mind, Visa's SVP of IoT, Avin Arumugam said: who could produce the biggest, baddest and most powerful engine. Today, theyâre thinking how software and services inside the cockpit make the car a powerful, mobile connected device, also capable of enabling friction-free commerce. Like, Arumugam said, using iris scanning and rearview mirrors to authenticate and preauthorize drivers to buy stuff on their digital drives.
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| How Many Payments Does A Cross-Border Merchant Really Need?
While the temptation for merchants thinking about global expansion is to adopt an "everything but the kitchen sink" mentality when it comes to payment acceptance, Braintreeâs director of international, Albert Drouart, told Karen Webster thatâs a myth. Drouart offers new data on how many payment methods are optimal â and why. Spoiler alert: You wonât need more than two hands to count them. Read More... |
| | Consumer Payments Behavior | | What Payments Innovators Can Learn From Monkeys
Getting consumers to fall in love with innovation is the day job for many a payments innovator. And they almost always produce innovation, Karen Webster says, that asks consumers to make wholesale changes to what they do now. Itâs why she argues that getting consumers to change might be more about asking them not to â and what innovations could be well-positioned to become payments innovationâs path of least resistance. Skeptical? Donât be. Just watch the monkeys. Read More... |
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