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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The Report Responsible Practices to Address Seven Major Risks in COVID-19 Digital Financial Transfers identifies seven heightened risks resulting from the speed and scale of COVID-19 digital transfer responses.
Mexico has been among the forerunners in tax digitalization, starting in the 1980s when it piloted digital Point of Sale (PoS) registration and invoicing.
Blockchain Series: Blog 1…
IMF managing director Christine Lagarde is to be applauded for her recent leadership in the fight against corruption, and her recognition that there is an increasingly limited role for cash …
Across the global policy community, the jury is now in about the power of digital payments to drive financial inclusion, particularly for women and the poor; improve efficiency and transpare…
Harvard Center for International Development (CID) hosts Better Than Cash Alliance on the CID Speaker Series Podcast. …
This blog was originally published on BSR.org…
Below are the questions we often get asked about our Responsible Digital Payments Guidelines:…
Our Peer-Exchange to Brazil was part of the Alliance’s response to the knowledge needs of member countries…
H&M group becomes the first global fashion brand to join the United Nations’ Better Than Cash Alliance…
This blog post was originally published in the Huffington Post…
For the first time, new evidence from 25 countries shows how governments and companies can move away from cash, as McKinsey Global Institute reveals a potential $3.7 trillion GDP boost…
The principles, endorsed in 2016 during the G20 Chinese Presidency, catalyzes the adoption of digital approaches to achieve G20’s goals of financial inclusion, inclusive growth and increasing women’s economic participation.
The report provides key findings from the mobile money workshops conducted by Electronic Cash Transfer Learning Action Network (ELAN) in January 2016- one in Dakar (Senegal) and other one in Gisenyi (Rwanda).
Did you ever wonder why there is not an International Men’s Day? There actually is such a day, by the way—it’s on November 19th, but there aren’t too many people marking it with a night off …
By BTCA Communications Team…
The report catalogues extensive suggestive evidence of some of the unintended consequences of AML/CFT and sanctions enforcement by FATF and SSBs simultaneously highlighting their role in increasing the safety and security of the global financial systems.
On behalf of the United Nations’ Secretary General Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Ms. Bettina Tucci Bartsiotas, UN Assistant Secretary-General and Controller, announced that the UN Secretariat had just jo…
by Tidar Wald, Government and Corporate Relations Specialist at Better Than Cash Alliance…