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 paper examines strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats of branchless banking and recommends some strategies around the identified challenges with a focus on Pakistan.
This report identifies critical gaps and opportunities for the cashless economies to increase financial inclusion for MSMs aand provides some interseting insights from successful cases from sevral countries including Indonesia, Peru and Nigeria.
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…
Harvard Center for International Development (CID) hosts Better Than Cash Alliance on the CID Speaker Series Podcast. …
MIT Technology Review Editor-in-Chief Gideon Lichfield talks with Wole Coaxum, MoCaFi founder and chief executive officer, Shamina Singh, Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth president; and Tidhar Wald, Better Than Cash Alliance head of government relations and public policy, at the Bloomberg Sooner Than You Think technology summit in Brooklyn.
This blog was originally published on The Practitioner Hub for Inclusive Business…
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.
This blog post was originally published in Next Billion…
The paper identifies opportunities and challenges in using the interface and options available in a smartphone to solutions that are more flexible, more accessible based on literacy levels, and more secure than traditional ‘feature’ phones.
Through Red Qiubo, Grupo Bimbo provides small businesses with the necessary technology to accept digital payments in their operations.
This report outlines how mobile channels can support sanitation services delivery while building new engagement models and emphasizes the need of a collaborative approach to mobile technology integration, grant support for developing and piloting.
This editorial highlights the significance of digital money as a transformational innovation and emphasizes that banks and financial institutions need to develop strategies to respond to opportunities and threats of digital money.
It sets a model for an enabling environment for financial inclusion across five domains: 1. Government and Policy Support; 2. Stability and Integrity; 3. Products and Outlets; 4. Consumer Pr…
Digital Financial Services (DFS) is a relatively new, low-cost means of digital access to transactional financial services. Often termed ‘mobile money’ or ‘mobile financial services,’ DFS is…
The paper examines the effects of mobile money as financial technology and service innovation on consumer demand, connecting the effects to the fast evolving mobile technologies (from 1G to 4G).
In December 2017, there were over 2.9 million active agents and 690 million registered customer accounts worldwide. Primarily responsible for registering customer accounts, mobile money agen…
The twelfth annual Financial Access Survey (FAS) reveals considerable expansion in the usage of digital financial services during COVID-19.
This WEF report explores how redefining and measuring the way digital payments interact with one another can help drive economic growth and financial inclusion.
This report explores implications of financial services’ digital transformation for market outcomes - and regulation and supervision - and how these interact.
At the Better Than Cash Alliance Secretariat we are starting to think what responsible digital payments mean for our members and stakeholders and want to ask your opinion.