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Governments can fight corruption by joining the digital payment revolution

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…

A Roundup of Our Latest Research

A roundup of our latest reports and case studies

2017 State of the Industry Report on Mobile Money

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…

The trillion-dollar prize: Plugging government revenue leaks with advanced analytics

Governments can capture about 20% of leakages over several years of concentrated effort using digital payment data, alternative data sources, and advanced analytics. Worldwide, that represe…

A Case Study on Monetary Fraud in a Cashless Economy

A case study on three countries Sweden, United States and India is conducted to survey variations in costs for cash and card instruments in economies that have varying extents of cash in cir…

What made 2017 special?

The wins our Alliance had in transition to digital payments

Identifying the critical success factors and an optimal solution for mobile technology adoption in travel agencies

To effectively use of mobile technologies, this study develops a multifaceted framework to analyze critical success factors and determine an optimal solution for mobile technology adoption in travel agencies.

Financial technologies paving a bright new path for the world's unbanked population

Based on a sample of 62 developing countries, the paper provides empirical analysis showing increase in the use of FinTech has a positive effect on the level of financial inclusion, which in turn advance sustainable economic development.

Financial Inclusion, Digital Payments and Their Impact on Income and Tax Revenue Around the World

Using various global datasets, this study quantifies the effect of financial inclusion and digital payments on income and individual government tax revenues to be an additional $4.1 trillion in the world economy.

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

This blog post was originally published in the Huffington Post

Anti-money laundering and terrorist financing measures and financial inclusion

The promotion of formal financial systems and services is central to any effective and comprehensive AML/CFT regime. However, applying an overly cautious approach to AML/CFT safeguards can h…

Indonesia joins our Alliance

By joining our global partnership, Indonesia is committed to accelerating the transition from cash to digital payments and has encouraged fellow APEC countries to follow suit.

Cashless Cities: Realizing the benefits of digital payments

Everything from the range of goods and services we buy to how we buy them has drastically shifted toward digital, bringing significant benefits to consumers, businesses and economies. As the…

Digitizing retail payments: Building a successful loyalty model

On creating loyalty programs for customers….

Unilever joins the Better Than Cash Alliance

Leading consumer goods company and sustainability champion Unilever has committed to transition away from cash throughout its value chain.

Unilever raises the bar on private sector leadership to achieve the SDGs through digital payments

In a significant step towards integrating social benefits into business strategy, the UN-based Better Than Cash Alliance announced its newest member: Unilever.