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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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.
Ghana joins Better Than Cash Alliance for greater financial transparency
Le Ghana rejoint l’Alliance Better Than Cash pour une plus grande transparence financière…
Join the Better Than Cash Alliance and our partners for an online discussion about safety and transparency in digital payments.
A study has found that Kenyan farmers who use mobile money have 35% higher profits per acre of banana production than non-users. Mobile money also increased household income by 40% and contr…
The Better Than Cash Alliance supports a unique initiative of the Peruvian Banker’s Association (ASBANC) that brings together banks and major telecom operators…
Forum Highlights Global Standards For Responsible Digital Finance…
Gates Foundation and Better Than Cash Alliance urge governments to embrace digital financial services, offers concrete action steps
By Beth Porter, Policy Advisor, Financial Inclusion, UNCDF, Advisor, Better Than Cash Alliance
Earlier this year, we shared the story of the World Food Programme (WFP) introducing cash transfers on mobile phones at the Gihembe refugee camp in northern Rwanda. …
The World Bank expects people to send USD$581 billion in remittances in 2014, through a network of banks and money transfer operators.
The Alliance and the Gates Foundation propose digital financial services as a means for this growth to be broad-based and inclusive, especially for to women.
The London Borough of Lewisham is an inner-city district serving over 248,000 people.
When young people who have been placed in the Borough’s care leave it at the age of 18, they receiv…
The following is a guest post by Sara Murray, Electronic Payments Program Manager at Mercy Corps, a Better Than Cash Alliance member….
A Q&A with Dr. Ruth Goodwin-Groen on the Better Than Cash Alliance’s Important New Role
This CGAP Focus Note presents the evidence gained from a comprehensive study of the experiences in developing and implementing e-payment schemes linked to financial inclusion in four lower-i…
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…
NBER Working Paper No. 19999 Issued in March 2014
We evaluate the impact of biometrically-authenticated payments infrastructure (“Smartcards”) on beneficiaries of employm…
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…
World Economic Forum recognises electronic payments as a driver for financial inclusion