Flywire Executive to Speak on Data Security at MIT Event

BOSTON, Nov. 16, 2016 -- Flywire CFO Mike Ellis will be a featured panelist at the 2016 MIT Sloan CFO Summit, the nation’s premier event for financial leaders. The event takes place on Thursday, November 17, 2016 at the Marriott Hotel in Newton, MA. This year’s theme is “Always On: The Digital CFO.”

Ellis will be part of a panel discussion titled Anticipating Disruptions: External and Internal Threats to Data where he will discuss emerging data security threats and their potential impact on the business of international payments. Other panelists in the session include executives from KPMG, Bright Horizons and CyberArk.

The 14^th annual Summit is a unique opportunity for 500 of the nation's top chief financial officers and senior financial executives to learn and discuss high level strategies and practical insights relevant to financial decision makers. This year's outstanding speakers include CFOs from GE, PayPal, Pandora, UPS, Zillow and many more. Click here for the full agenda.

"In this highly mobile, always on, digital world, CFOs are helping their companies connect in new and exciting ways," said Jeremy Seidman, Co-Chair of the MIT Sloan CFO Summit. "Attendees will learn how to enhance their company offerings, better market to customers, and navigate this increasingly complex digital landscape."

About the MIT Sloan CFO Summit

The MIT Sloan CFO Summit is the nation’s premier CFO event. Each year, the event offers a day of cutting-edge programming that addresses the changing role of the CFO. The event is rich with opportunities for practical education and peer networking in a time-efficient format. The Summit is part of the CXO Series produced by the MIT Sloan School of Management, one of the world’s leading academic sources of innovation in management theory and practice, and the MIT Sloan Boston Alumni Association. The annual events are organized 100% by alumni volunteers. By promoting the MIT philosophy of “mens et manus,” or “mind and hand,” they are able to bring together the academic research from MIT Sloan with today’s corporate financial leaders. To register, click here.

About Flywire

Flywire, formerly peerTransfer, is a leading provider of high-ticket payment solutions, connecting educational and healthcare institutions with consumers on six continents. Introduced five years ago as a way for international students to pay their tuition for studies abroad, Flywire is now welcomed by over 1,100 colleges and universities around the world and hospitals in North America. The company has processed billions in payments from 220 countries and territories, in 70 local currencies. Convenient, fast and secure, Flywire’s scalable platform accepts bank transfers, online banking, and credit and debit cards − providing currency conversion at exchange rates that can offer significant savings when compared to home-market banks and credit card providers. Committed to a great end-to-end customer experience, the company offers multilingual servicing via phone, email, and chat, as well as 24/7 online payment tracking.

Flywire is headquartered in Boston, MA with international operations in London and Manchester, UK; Shanghai, China; Tokyo, Japan; Singapore; Sydney, Australia; and Valencia, Spain. For more information, visit www.Flywire.com.

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