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Ideas & Updates

In Learning Exchange with Kenya, Nigerian and Malawian Banks Focus on Reaching Women With Cashless Solutions

Guest post by Allegra Palmer, Women’s World Banking…
© ©Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation/Frederic Courbet
Industry Report

IMF Fiscal Transparency Code aligns with BTCA goals

What do you think of the IMF’s new Fiscal Transparency Code for governments? Marco Cangiano, …

Ideas & Updates

New Digital Business Model Opportunity for Remittances as Banks Close MTO Accounts?

The World Bank expects people to send USD$581 billion in remittances in 2014, through a network of banks and money transfer operators.
© http://nextbillion.net/
Toolkit

USAID ePayments Toolkit

A Toolkit for USAID Implementing Partners and Development Organizations
© © WFP, © UNHCR, © UNICEF Bangladesh
Industry Report

Digitizing merchant payments in Bangladesh

Better placement of marketing materials can help boost usage of digital payments in small merchants. What are some other ways to drive usage? Read this IFC report that is based on feedback and learnings from early adopters of bKash in Bangladesh.
Industry Report

The Financial Action Task Force cautions on the use of virtual currencies

The Financial Action Task Force [says that virtual currencies are a powerful payment method](http://www.fatf-gafi.org/topics/methodsandtrends/documents/virtual-currency-definitions-aml-cft-r…

© ©Colin Crowley, Creative Commons
Ideas & Updates

Is Cash the Enemy of Financial Inclusion?

The Better Than Cash Alliance, hosted by UNCDF, gathered with colleagues at the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) Council of Governors Annual Meeting last month in Urubamba, Peru….
Industry Report

London Borough of Lewisham: Care leavers receive allowance via prepaid card

The London Borough of Lewisham is an inner-city district serving over 248,000 people.

When young people who have been placed in the Borough’s care leave it at the age of 18, they receiv…
Ideas & Updates

At a Moment’s Notice: Mercy Corps Tests and Deploys an E-Voucher System for Crises in the DRC

The following is a guest post by Sara Murray, Electronic Payments Program Manager at Mercy Corps, a Better Than Cash Alliance member….
Ideas & Updates

BTCA Becomes an Implementing Partner of the G20′s Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion

A Q&A with Dr. Ruth Goodwin-Groen on the Better Than Cash Alliance’s Important New Role
Industry Report

Electronic G2P Payments: Evidence from Four Lower-Income Countries

This CGAP Focus Note presents the evidence gained from a comprehensive study of the experiences in developing and implementing e-payment schemes linked to financial inclusion in four lower-i…
Ideas & Updates

Women’s World Banking Joins the Better Than Cash Alliance

One Million Low-Income People to Reap Benefits of Digital Money