Digital payments

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

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

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

Alibaba Affiliate Ant Financial Seeks Up to $5 Billion in Funding

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…

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.

Governments can use digital financial technologies to fight corruption

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.

How financial institutions and fintechs are partnering for inclusion: Lessons from the frontlines

This report finds and discusses that contrary to a popular narrative of competition between the legacy providers and newcomers in the market, financial institutions view fintechs as great partners for innovation and envisions more such partnerships as institutions learn from successful cases.

Handbook of blockchain, digital finance, and inclusion: cryptocurrency, fintech, insurtech, regulation, Chinatech, mobile security, and distributed ledger

The handbook emphasizes the financial opportunities made possible by digital banking, such as financial inclusion and impact investing and summaries standard models of various new technologies.

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.

‘Digital transactions are next big revolution’

Better Than Cash Alliance lauds India’s push for digital payments, Aadhaar