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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Leading Corporations, Foundations and Development Organizations Form ‘Better Than Cash Alliance’…
The Better Than Cash Alliance Is Out to Create a “Cash Lite” World…
Kenya is moving towards emerging market status and the government’s focused strategy of creating an electronic payments economy is contributing to its growth. During a reception hosted by th…
While in Zambia last week, I was struck by the changes in the mobile money sector that have happened since my last trip in 2011, which admittedly is about 20 years ago in technology years. W…
Digital Payments and Financial Inclusion Key to Poverty Alleviation and Economic Growth, say World Leaders…
World Economic Forum recognises electronic payments as a driver for financial inclusion
Guest post by Allegra Palmer, Women’s World Banking…
Rwanda to accelerate digital payments by joining the Better Than Cash Alliance
For stakeholders engaged in the shift from cash to electronic payments, there is an ever-present appetite for data on progress.
Ghana joins Better Than Cash Alliance for greater financial transparency
The Better Than Cash Alliance (BTCA) is supporting the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) work with the authorities in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone to coordinate payments for thousands of treatment centre staff, lab technicians, contacts tracers and burial teams.
There is growing consensus in the humanitarian community that cash (digital or physical) – as opposed to delivery of food and materials – is often the best way to help communities bounce back from crisis.
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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.
PNG’s Ministries of Finance and Treasury endorse Better Than Cash Alliance membership
Government, private sector, mobile operators and development organizations convene to establish a plan for the future…
In key move to recover from the economic impact of the Ebola crisis, Nation joins the Better Than Cash Alliance
This is the third in a series of articles written by Maura Hart on the achievements of several Better Than Cash Alliance members.
This case study features four large businesses that have derived clear benefits by early adoption of digital payments.
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…