Aspire Cash

Developed with NatWest’s Payit solution, Aspire Cash unlocks the benefits of open banking.

No more collecting, verifying and storing student bank account details – ever

No need to collect student mobile phone numbers in order to verify payments

Get hardship and emergency funding to students in minutes.

Deliver a better, digital student experience

Understand how students are using their cash

Deliver all your bursaries and cash awards within one ecosystem.

Achieve measurable administrative and overall time and cost savings.

"Being able to get money to students 24/7 makes the task so much easier. Students feel instant relief when they know money is on its way today. This is a really welcome initiative for the whole HE sector. The Aspire Cash process also reduces our administrative costs and gives us excellent data about what students spend emergency cash on. That really helps build our understanding of student needs and behaviour in the current climate."

Ben Dale, Director of Finance, University of Sunderland

Speedy 'Emergency Cash' when it is needed

‘Emergency Cash payments now happen in 30 minutes when they used to take a week’

BNU has taken a long term approach to the deployment of JS Group student finance tools. Their relationship with the JS Group started in 2014 when they adopted the Aspire Credit tool to fund targeted students to purchase course specific resources. Then in 2019 they started to use the Aspire Cash tool because they found the allocation of cash support to complicated to administer.

‘Emergency Cash payments now happen in 30 minutes when they used to take a week’ said Dan Gerrish – senior student well-being and engagement officer. ‘The Aspire Cash tool takes away a significant administrative burden and gives us real visibility about what students spend the money.’