Digital infrastructure

Achieving Decent Work and Economic Growth by 2030: How Are Companies Making a Difference Through Payment Digitization?

Pagos inmediatos: esta es la nueva revolución que seduce a Colombia

New evidence > Responsible digital financial inclusion is driving SDG progress

Digital financial inclusion offers real hope to help us get back to achieving the SDGs by 2030

Our 2022 in 3 words...

Improving access to healthcare and decent work, reaching farmers, including merchants, equal opportunities for women and much more, through responsibly digitizing payments.

Responsible Digital Payments for Women Merchants

Alliance’s work in action

Colombia’s Ingreso Solidario

Improving social protection through public-private collaboration and responsible digital payment practices as part of COVID-19 emergency response

Accelerating Digital Payments in Latin America and the Caribbean

The World Economic Forum and IDB Lab explore how digital payments in Latin America & the Caribbean can continue to evolve in an open, inclusive and safe manner.

Colombia: Innovations in the delivery of Ingreso Solidario

Learning webinar highlights #highlights

Colombia’s Ingreso Solidario: Public-private Collaboration In Covid-19 Emergency Payments Response

Ingreso Solidario is a COVID-19 social protection programme in Colombia benefitting 3 million households. It shows digital payments can be rapidly dispersed across multiple channels.

Maximizing Government Cost Savings

Peru, the Dominican Republic, and Costa Rica are demonstrating that digital payments are an essential part of the economic recovery

Accelerating winds of change in global payments

The COVID-19 crisis is having a significant and widespread effect on global payments across sectors. The most striking and potentially lasting impact is an accelerating pace of change in the industry.

Impulso a inclusión financiera digital a través del Ingreso Solidario

Responsible Digital Payments during COVID-19

This webinar demonstrated how integrating the Responsible Digital Payments Guidelines in payment responses is possible and why it’s an important building block for recovery.

A Fine Balance: Regulation & Greater Economic Opportunity in the Case of Payment Gateways for Merchants

Opening new payment gateways for merchants presents risks but much greater opportunities. Striking the right balance between fostering innovative services and managing risk is crucial.

Expandiendo los pagos digitales en los programas sociales del Perú

En un mundo donde la tecnología está revolucionando nuestras vidas a un ritmo sin precedentes, la digitalización de pagos es clave para impulsar la adopción de políticas públicas que promuev…

Leveraging Digital Financial Solutions to Promote Formal Business Participation

This paper explores economic informality and how it relates to digital financial inclusion. It focuses specifically on the potential role that digital financial services–including those accessed through mobile phones and the internet can play in encouraging businesses to formalize their operations.

“Botón PSE has changed the payment landscape in Colombia”

Interview with Gustavo Vega, President of the clearing house ACH Colombia

“Botón PSE ha transformado el panorama de pagos en Colombia”

Entrevista a Gustavo Vega, Presidente de la empresa ACH Colombia

Digital Payments Adoption and the Demand for Cash: New International Evidence

Cash remains in high demand despite measures by governments to keep funds digital. This Central Bank of Colombia study finds that economic growth and lower interest rates have a role to play.

Should graduation programmes replace the more conventional cash transfers? 

What comes after unconditional cash transfers? Does the inclusion of some form of graduation programs offer a more sustainable solution to poverty? Read this blog to learn more about the deb…