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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New partnership will result in promoting digital payments as an important tool to increase security, financial inclusion and economic opportunities in the workplace.
An interview with the Ethical Tea Partnership: Jenny Costelloe, Executive Director & Liberal Seburikoko, Regional Director (Africa)
Interview with World Cocoa Foundation, Paul F. Macek, Vice President for Programs
In joining the Better Than Cash Alliance, the World Savings and Retail Banking Institute will work to increase the number of electronic transactions undertaken throughout its global membersh…
Re-posted from the “Beyond the Transaction” Mastercard blog
Small merchants exert a big influence on the global economy.
ANTALYA, Turkey - How are phones and cards changing the ways the global poor access and manage their money, and what should governments and financial institutions do to ensure innovative pr…
Empowering People One Transaction at a Time: Leading Corporations, Foundations and Development Organizations Form “Better Than Cash Alliance” to Accelerate Global Shift to Electronic Payments
Around the world, 2.5 billion people lack access to formal financial services….
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 …
At ACDI/VOCA we see firsthand how technological innovations are revolutionizing approaches to global economic development. This is particularly true for electronic payments. Around 2.5 billi…
The Alliance Learning Series is developed to promote a culture of active sharing of learnings with members and other key stakeholders.
This blog was originally published on The Practitioner Hub for Inclusive Business…
One Million Low-Income People to Reap Benefits of Digital Money
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…
Pledges to Improve Access to Finance and Markets for the Poor by Supporting Shift to Electronic Payments…
Her Majesty Queen Máxima of the Netherlands, UN Secretary-General’s Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development and Mr Bill Gates to Speak on Digital Financial Inclusion and Inc…
Gates Foundation and Better Than Cash Alliance urge governments to embrace digital financial services, offers concrete action steps
Digital Payments and Financial Inclusion Key to Poverty Alleviation and Economic Growth, say World Leaders…
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