Flywire Partners with State Bank of India (SBI) to Digitize Education Payments from India
BOSTON and MUMBAI, India, Feb. 06, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Flywire Corporation (Nasdaq: FLYW) (Flywire), a global payments enablement and software company, today announced that it has partnered with State Bank of India, India’s largest public sector bank, to enable Indian payers to seamlessly and digitally pay international education-related fees in their local currency (Indian Rupees) to higher education institutions all over the world. The integration provides students and families a streamlined and completely digital experience when making high-value education payments, and helps them comply with the Liberalized Remittance Scheme (LRS), which are guidelines to help streamline overseas transactions and investments for residents of India.
- Flywire integrates directly into SBI’s banking platform, providing Indian students with a fully digital checkout experience for their transactions, ranging from application fees to tuition payments.
- The partnership between Flywire and SBI provides an innovative approach to education payments and offers many benefits to students and institutions alike.
- SBI customers can complete payments from local currency accounts to the thousands of Flywire education clients in a simple, three step process.
- Flywire identifies the source of payments delivered to an institutions’ bank account and automatically posts each payment to the applicable student record.