Three years of English training at Paysonix

Most case studies cover a single course that ran for a few months. This one covers three years. We have trained Paysonix, a fintech payments company, since 2023, and the length is the point: the hard part of corporate English is not the first term, it is keeping people improving once they reach the advanced levels where progress goes quiet.

Paysonix builds a unified payment interface for PSPs and merchants, handling card, e-wallet, online banking, QR and mobile payments. For a team like that, English is not a side skill. It runs through calls with international partners and vendors, integration and technical-requirement discussions, product updates, international meetings, and the kind of business correspondence where one unclear sentence turns into three follow-up emails. This is the gap generic business English misses: the team needs the specific conversations of payments work, not textbook scenarios.

The company set two conditions at the start, and they usually trade against each other: keep attendance high, and keep the budget tight. The group format is how you hold both. Groups of five or six people keep the cost per learner down, and at that size everyone still gets to talk and nobody hides at the back. It only works if the teaching is strong and the programme bends to the real work.

We tested everyone’s level first, then split people into groups by proficiency and by the kind of work they do, so a B2 group preparing for client calls was not sitting through the same material as a C1 group.
Each group then followed a long arc rather than a one-off course: B2 to B2+ to C1, or C1 to C1+. Classes run online with native-speaker teachers, Caitlin and Anne, two or three times a week, an hour at a time.
There are certificates at the end of each level, and a group moves up only when it is ready.

In total, 22 people have trained across six groups, and as of June 2026, three groups remained active on General and Business English.

The groups went different ways, which is how it should be.

Average attendance this spring was 82 percent. Anyone who has tried to hold a fintech team in a recurring class through release cycles and incident weeks knows that figure is hard to reach.

The January 2026 NPS came back at 9 out of 10 from the manager, who noted how easy UnifyHub was to work with, and 9 out of 10 from the learners.

The feedback was more useful than the scores.

• They liked that the topics were relevant and the atmosphere was not stiff.
• They valued that we could reshape a programme mid-course when the group’s needs shifted, and reschedule a class when work got loud.
• And they kept mentioning the teachers, not their credentials but their humour, and the fact that they always stopped to check whether anyone had more questions.

A group format keeps corporate English affordable without making the learning worse, as long as the teaching is strong and the programme bends to the real work.

The hard stretch is not the start. It is the advanced levels, where progress goes quiet and people stop feeling like they are improving. A steady programme and teachers the group trusts do most of the work there.

That is why we run English for IT and fintech teams as a managed programme rather than a marketplace of one-off lessons.