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Startup uLesson Lands $3.1M To Improve Education In Africa

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Founded this year by Sim Shagaya, uLesson is working to lesson educational gaps in the region by integrating mobile platforms, SD cards, cultural curriculum and a network of tutors. It is currently in the development phase and plans to launch in February 2020 in Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone and Gambia.

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Deep Dive: Instant Payments Confront Long Path To Ubiquity

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Payments made with cash and checks are dropping in volume — the use of cash alone declined 40 percent over the past five years in Canada. Instant payments started 2020 on a high note, however, with the adoption of real-time payments and other speedy disbursement methods increasing over the past few years.

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Cross-Border Payments For Higher Education

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Those three APAC countries, in fact, represent more than 50 percent of the home regions of international students in Japan, the total number of which rose 10 percent in 2014 and is on pace to reach 300,000 by 2020. What is driving that increase, explains Massaro, is proximity.

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Contextual Commerce Comes To Higher Education

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That country, she said, has a government initiative in place to increase the international student population by a significant amount, to have as many as 300,000 international students by 2020, fed from other countries such as China. “We We don’t see anything really slowing down,” Butler told Webster.