Responsible digital payments

Driving sales through digital working capital loans for small merchants

Unilever partnered with Mastercard and Kenya Commercial Bank to develop a digital working capital platform helping small merchants grow sale in Kenya, called Jaza Duka.

Regulatory Diagnostic Toolkit for DFS in Emerging Markets Toolkit

The RDT is the world’s first structured analytical framework to support regulators by using a systematic approach to assess, adapt and advance regulatory regimes for DFS.

Investing in Responsible Digital Financial Services Part I – Overview of Guidelines Toolkit

This is a first draft of the Guidelines (Overview – Part I)

Financial inclusion is making great strides

'Unprecedented Opportunities' For Reaching The Unbanked

Banque mondiale: comment le paiement mobile révolutionne les économies africaines

Insights from the World Bank's 2017 Global Findex database

10 reasons to be optimistic that full financial inclusion is possible through digital payments

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.

“Digital payments can be a game-changer for farmers”

Interview with World Cocoa Foundation, Paul F. Macek, Vice President for Programs

Investor Guidelines – Comprehensive Risk Matrix Draft Version 1.0 Toolkit

This is a draft version and remains work-in-progress as digital financial services is a rapidly evolving space.

Investor Guidelines (Annex 1) – Due Diligence Tool Draft Version 1.0 Toolkit

This draft (Annex I – Due Diligence Tool V.1) remains work-in-progress as digital financial services is a rapidly evolving space

Gap Inc. sets new goal for apparel suppliers to pay garment workers digitally by 2020

Gap joins our Alliance

Gap Inc. joins the Better Than Cash Alliance with a bold digitization goal

Gap Inc. Sets New Goal For Apparel Suppliers To Pay Garment Workers Digitally By 2020

Joins UN-based Better than Cash Alliance to Promote Financial Inclusion and Greater Supply Chain Transparency and Efficiency…

Senegal’s commitment to digitizing payments at local level is setting an example for the region

Senegal has just announced a new partnership to accelerate the country’s transition from cash to digital payments, improving local governance and service delivery for its citizens.

What made 2017 special?

The wins our Alliance had in transition to digital payments

Mobile money

This review provides an overview of the operations and impacts of mobile money in the developing world and discussing what the future of mobile money in developing economies may look like.

Gender and digital financial inclusion: What do we know and what do we need to know

This report undertakes a systematic review of key literature and identifies areas for further research and opportunities in the field of gender and financial inclusion, particularly digital financial inclusion.

In India, digital payments are changing the game for women entrepreneurs

This blog post was originally published in the Huffington Post