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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One Million Low-Income People to Reap Benefits of Digital Money
On April 15-16, 2014 the Better Than Cash Alliance presented at the First High Level Meeting for Effective Development Cooperation in Mexico City, Mexico.
Kenya has been hailed as one of the developing world’s leaders in electronic payments. So it should come as no surprise that a sparsely populated, dusty village 500 kilometres from Nairobi i…
As part of its commitments to enhance food security, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has introduced mobile phone facilitated cash transfers to feed the 14,500 refugees in Gihem…
These phones can be used to receive and transfer money through an electronic banking solution called mVISA, provided by the Bank of Kigali.
CRS Commits to Increase Electronic Payments to Strengthen Local Economies…
Study concludes Mexico’s savings and other benefits and provides tangible lessons for other nations
Globe’s subscribers can donate to the typhoon relief using their mobile phones.
As part of its massive humanitarian response to the Syrian crisis, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is rolling out an innovative electronic voucher programme in Lebanon that wil…
E-cards allow them to buy the foods that fit their needs, including fresh produce which is not normally included in traditional food rations.
Digital Payments and Financial Inclusion Key to Poverty Alleviation and Economic Growth, say World Leaders…
Her Majesty Queen Máxima of the Netherlands, UN Secretary-General’s Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development and Mr Bill Gates to Speak on Digital Financial Inclusion and Inc…
News from BTCA financial inclusion UN General Assembly week event
It’s hard to imagine a more explosive, transformative, and empowering trend than the growth of the mobile phone sector in Africa.
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…
Government of Afghanistan Joins Better Than Cash Alliance — Pledges to Address Poverty and Grow Economy by Shifting to Electronic Payments…
Alliance Accelerates Work to Transition from Cash to Electronic Payments Worldwide…
2012 the Better Than Cash Alliance was launched at an event at the Ford Foundation in New York….
Citi helped to launch the Better Than Cash Alliance, a coalition of public, private and NGO partners.