Bre-B: Una Infraestructura Pública Digital para fortalecer la inclusión financiera y la competitividad de Colombia.

Bre‑B busca asegurar la interoperabilidad, disminuir el uso de efectivo y promover la inclusión financiera en Colombia

2025 Newsletter

Reflecting on responsible digital payments for financial inclusion, economic development, and prosperity in 2025

Pagos digitales, negocios reales: cómo América Latina impulsa la inclusión productiva

La digitalización de las mipymes transforma la manera de hacer negocios y redefine la inclusión, la productividad y el futuro económico de la región.

Digital Payments, Real Business: How Latin America and the Caribbean Is Driving Productive Inclusion

The digitalization of MSMEs is transforming the way business is done and redefining inclusion, productivity, and the economic future of the region.

Brewing inclusion: what coffee farmers in Ethiopia are telling us about digital payments

Insights from farmers’ voices in a new 60 Decibels study with the Oromia Coffee Farmers’ Cooperative Union

Building Trust in Raast Merchant Payments

Secure for users. Accountable for providers. Built to make RAAST as trusted as cash.

How has Côte d’Ivoire integrated responsible digital payments into public hospital care?

This study highlights Côte d’Ivoire’s major step forward in modernizing its public health system with the launch of Santé CIV, an application to streamline digital health payments.

How to digitalize the microfinance sector? Examples from the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) countries

Developed by the Senegalese company GSIE Technology and the Professional Association of Decentralized Financial Systems of Senegal (APSFD-Senegal), SUNU NAFA enables even the smallest microfinance institutions to serve clients in remote rural areas. Customers can now complete transactions safely from home, saving time, reducing travel costs, and avoiding exposure to physical risks.

How has Senegal made responsible digital payments a catalyst for universal health coverage?

This study highlights Senegal’s transformative leap toward universal health coverage with SEN-CSU, a public digital platform that enables responsible and inclusive enrollment and payment for health insurance.

Acelerando la integración económica de la población migrante en Colombia a través de monederos móviles. Tercera parte.

Parte 3: Los resultados del piloto demuestran que los monederos móviles mejoran el bienestar de las personas migrantes

Acelerando la integración económica de la población migrante en Colombia a través de monederos móviles. Segunda parte.

Parte 2: Un piloto para extender los beneficios de los pagos digitales a la población migrante

Acelerando la integración económica de la población migrante en Colombia a través de monederos móviles. Primera parte.

Parte 1: Colombia: un campo de pruebas para la innovación en la distribución de recursos para poblaciones vulnerables.

Scaling merchant payments on RAAST: a responsible pricing blueprint for Pakistan

Affordable for merchants. Sustainable for providers. Built for Pakistan’s instant payment system.

The Tracks Are Laid, Now We Need More Traffic

Unlocking digital inclusion for women in Jordan

Jordan has improved financial inclusion, but women, youth, small businesses, and refugees still face major barriers to accessing digital financial services.

Digital wages can unlock women’s economic power in Bangladesh

Beyond Access: From Accounts to Opportunity

The World Bank’s Global Findex 2025 is a scorecard on how well countries, across the globe are transitioning from cash toward equitable digital payments. Headline number shows that 79 percent of adults now own an account, up 28 points since 2011. Financial exclusion for women remains significant and many accounts remain inactive.

Façonner l’avenir numérique de l’Afrique : un appel à des feuilles de route souveraines

Avec le guide du Plan d’action pour les DPI, l’Afrique a une opportunité unique de façonner un avenir numérique centré sur les personnes, inclusif et souverain.

Shaping Africa’s Digital Future: A Call for Sovereign Roadmaps

With the DPI Roadmap Playbook as a guide, Africa has a unique opportunity to shape a digital future that is people-first, inclusive, and sovereign.