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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ACDI/VOCA Joins the Better Than Cash Alliance — Pledges to Address Poverty and Grow the Economy by Shifting to Electronic Payments …
Budget Under-Secretary Richard Bon Moya knew he was being ambitious. The goal was to shift all the financial transactions of the Filipino Government to a digital format—and to do it in five …
Crossposted from the original post that appeared in The Economist Intelligence Unit…
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…
Forum Highlights Global Standards For Responsible Digital Finance…
This blog post was originally published in the Huffington Post…
by Tidar Wald, Government and Corporate Relations Specialist at Better Than Cash Alliance…
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 …
Blockchain Series: Blog 3…
The President of Tanzania, H.E. Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, as well as Ministers and other high level figures from Peru, Belgium, Bangladesh, Colombia, the Philippines, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and S…
H&M group becomes the first global fashion brand to join the United Nations’ Better Than Cash Alliance…
Our Peer-Exchange to Brazil was part of the Alliance’s response to the knowledge needs of member countries…
Below are the questions we often get asked about our Responsible Digital Payments Guidelines:…
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…
Guest post by Marcos Bader…
This blog was originally published on The Practitioner Hub for Inclusive Business…
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 …
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…
$1.5 Million Grant Adds Momentum to Global Movement to Empower People and Grow Economies by Shifting from Cash to Electronic Payments…
Introduction: Framing of our blog series on distributed ledger technology…