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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2 out of 3 Mexicans now have access to formal financial products yet most of them still prefer cash. This insights2impact report suggests that to sway consumers, you have to provide them with the same convenience, flexibility, and sense of belonging as informal and social alternatives.
Read the University of Cambridge and UNSGSA report on how regulators are innovating to better respond to financial innovation….
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).
Around the world, 2.5 billion people lack access to formal financial services….
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.
Below are the questions we often get asked about our Responsible Digital Payments Guidelines:…
Forum Highlights Global Standards For Responsible Digital Finance…
This blog post was originally published in the Huffington Post…
The Better Than Cash Alliance Is Out to Create a “Cash Lite” World…
Development Research Group When the Better Than Cash Alliance (BTCA) was formed almost three years ago, about half of the world’s adult population had some type of bank account. Last week th…
Blockchain Series: Blog 1…
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.
Alliance Accelerates Work to Transition from Cash to Electronic Payments Worldwide…
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 …
This blog was originally published on BSR.org…
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…
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…
Pledges to Improve Access to Finance and Markets for the Poor by Supporting Shift to Electronic Payments…
G20 finance ministers call for open and inclusive digital payments infrastructures
Our Peer-Exchange to Brazil was part of the Alliance’s response to the knowledge needs of member countries…