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.
Filtered
The mobile money industry is now processing a billion dollars a day and generating direct revenues of over $2.4 billion. With 690 million registered accounts worldwide, mobile money has evol…
Interview with World Cocoa Foundation, Paul F. Macek, Vice President for Programs
As the world gets a progress report from the World Bank, the Alliance outlines 10 key reasons to be optimistic about the journey toward full financial inclusion.
A third of adults struggle to get by without basic financial services to protect against hardship and save for the future. Ruth Goodwin-Groen, of the UN-based Better Than Cash Alliance, expl…
At the heart of this financial transformation is the rise of digital payments services through which nearly any individual or business can send or receive money in real time for almost any p…
Interview with Felipe Vásquez de Velasco, General Manager of Peruvian Digital Payments (PDP)
By Oswell Kahonde and Juan Blanco
In December 2017, there were over 2.9 million active agents and 690 million registered customer accounts worldwide. Primarily responsible for registering customer accounts, mobile money agen…
In Addis Ababa, the vibrant Ethiopian capital, lies a busy Somali community market where Bisharo runs a small shop.
By Alfred Akibo-Betts and Tenzin Keyzom Massally
The paper outlines potential for growth for FinTech for financial inclusion while emphasising on the need for regulatory approaches , citing some successful cases from India , Kenya and China.
This diagnostic report shows that Senegal has a strong potential for digitizing payments.
Communiqué de presse du Gouvernement du Sénégal, l’Alliance Better Than Cash et MM4P…
Media release by the Government of Senegal, the Better Than Cash Alliance and MM4P…
The Prime Minister made this announcement at the Council of Ministers last week, where he presented a new study on payment digitization to His Excellency the President of the Republic, Macky Sall.