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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Building capacity within government agencies that champion digital payments
Making cash history: How digital payments can help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals
Financial inclusion is a means to an end – or many ends – rather than an end in itself.
By BTCA Communications Team…
This blog post was originally published in the Huffington Post
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
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…
Transportation Series: Blog 3
Below are the questions we often get asked about our Responsible Digital Payments Guidelines:…
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…
World Economic Forum recognises electronic payments as a driver for financial inclusion
Interoperability drives global digital inclusion. Over 25% more adults access government payments, but siloed systems hinder seamless transactions.
Reposted from the original Gates Foundation blog on Impatient Optimists. Until recently, achieving financial inclusion for the world’s unbanked poor was a pressing goal with perplexing obstacles.
Scaling digitization of payments for small and micro merchants by convening key stakeholders to co-create solutions.
In looking at ways to bring financial services to the more than two billion people outside formal financial systems, often the focus has been on piecemeal efforts to improve specific element…
The Better Than Cash Alliance is introducing an occasional series on innovations that have the potential to reduce costs in digital payments. The first in this series is an article by Ryan Z…