The Better Than Cash Alliance is a partnership of governments, companies, and international organizations that accelerates the transition from cash to digital payments in order to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
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Leading consumer goods company and sustainability champion Unilever has committed to transition away from cash throughout its value chain.
How digital payments can alleviate energy poverty
G20 leaders endorse our guidance document
International Women’s Day Edition
500 million reasons to digitize tax payments
New reports by McKinsey Global Institute and the Better Than Cash Alliance
500 million Indian smartphone users in next 5 years: a huge market for digital payments
A new report by the World Bank, the Better Than Cash Alliance, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Women’s World Banking provides insights on how digital financial services can help close the gender gap.
A new animation and working paper, developed by the Alliance, seek to better explain inclusive digital payment ecosystems.
The Tanzanian President, Finance Ministers and high level delegates are leading SDG progress by digitizing payments and accelerating financial inclusion.
700 million new accounts since 2011: The World Bank’s 2014 Global Findex findings
The Universal Postal Union (UPU), the UN’s agency for postal services, has joined the Better Than Cash Alliance.
The Coca-Cola Company and IFAD join the Alliance as members, Senegal shifts to electronic payments to promote economic growth and fight poverty.
The Alliance is supporting ASBANC to help launch the platform as soon as possible with the endorsement of the National Financial Inclusion Commission.
Digital payments can promote broader development goals of the G20 countries, according to a new report by the World Bank Development Research Group.
Banks are closing MTO accounts as risks increase amid a shifting regulatory environment.
The Alliance and the Gates Foundation propose digital financial services as a means for this growth to be broad-based and inclusive, especially for to women.
Women need confidential and easily accessible financial services as well as control over their finances, and electronic payments bring these features to financial products.
The case studies reveal how each country developed their programme, current delivery & payment, and the costs and benefits of using e-payments.
Are you shifting from cash to electronic payments - or thinking about doing so?