Accelerating responsible digital payments for COVID-19 relief

The devastating social and economic impacts of COVID-19 have heightened the need for proven solutions to keep the Sustainable Development Goals within reach

Accelerating winds of change in global payments

The COVID-19 crisis is having a significant and widespread effect on global payments across sectors. The most striking and potentially lasting impact is an accelerating pace of change in the industry.

Responding to conflict: Does “Cash Plus” work for preventing malnutrition?

Digital money: A journey worth taking

Cash Digitization: UN Collaboration, Coordination, and Harmonization Opportunities

New UN Better Than Cash Alliance’s Cash Digitization Study recommends strengthening cash assistance collaboration across UN agencies & partners, to improve coordination and harmonization.

News and Trends in Fintech and Digital Microfinance: Why Are European MFIs Invisible?

This study shares some best practices in the use of digital technologies by highly innovative fintech firms in areas that could be of use to MFIs in context of Europe.

Bridging the Digital Divide and Supporting Increased Digital Trade: Scoping Study

2017 State of the Industry Report on Mobile Money

A Case Study on Monetary Fraud in a Cashless Economy

Financial inclusion: The case of Republic of Macedonia

"The paper evaluates the level of financial inclusion in Republic of Macedonia through analazysis of indicators in some basic categories like number of accounts, borrowed funds and payment services. "

Liquider ses espèces, la Suède hésite

Digital payments are key implementation tool for Global Goals, say EU leaders

Mobile Banking Adoption and Diffusion: Enabling and Constraining Social or Financial Inclusion among Poor Women in Pakistan?

Through an interpretive case study of the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) in Pakistan, the paper investigates how the adoption of mobile phones enabled and constrained poor women for receiving G2P payments and its impact on poor households.

International Organization for Migration: relocation grants paid remotely worldwide with prepaid cards

Hghlights how Citi Prepaid Services for IOM beneficiaries resulted in reduced costs, detailed payment reports, as well as greater control and transparency.

Buckinghamshire County Council: Prepaid card delivers social benefits for children and young people in care

Buckinghamshire County Council discusses the case how they provided access to leisure and positive activities for children and young people through prepaid cards, reacheing over 80 percent within 15 months into the program.

Moldova pledges to digitize payments for all public services, joins Better Than Cash Alliance

Business model innovation: pervasiveness of mobile banking ecosystem and activity system–an illustrative case of Telenor Easypaisa

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

Digital Payments and Financial Inclusion Key to Poverty Alleviation and Economic Growth, say World Leaders