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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Alliance’s work in action
This International Women’s day, we reflect on members’ progress towards the vital goal of reaching financial equality for women.
Here, we share highlights of our collaboration with members despite the continuing serious challenges of COVID-19.
Building trust, mitigating risks and driving inclusive economies
Our latest report guides humanitarians to assess if and how digital payments can be effective
A new Better Than Cash Alliance and World Bank paper outlines factors for the financial exclusion of the elderly and explores how digital financial technology can help governments better prepare for global aging challenges.
This International Women’s Day, Marks & Spencer (M&S) is joining our Alliance to help advance the Sustainable Development Goals.
In a new compendium, we share some really exciting evidence on this from around the world.
Gap Inc. joins the Better Than Cash Alliance with a bold digitization goal
Leading consumer goods company and sustainability champion Unilever has committed to transition away from cash throughout its value chain.
International Women’s Day Edition
500 million Indian smartphone users in next 5 years: a huge market for digital payments
Good news ahead of the World Humanitarian Summit
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.
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.
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.