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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By Beth Porter, Policy Advisor, Financial Inclusion, UNCDF, Advisor, Better Than Cash Alliance
Re-posted from the “Beyond the Transaction” Mastercard blog
This blog post was originally published in the Huffington Post
Our Peer-Exchange to Brazil was part of the Alliance’s response to the knowledge needs of member countries…
Guest post by Shireen Santosham, GSMA Connected Women
Transportation Series: Blog 4…
Working with our members to help them collaborate with the private sector to build responsible digital payments ecosystems for the underserved and excluded.
From Peru to Rwanda to India, people, governments and businesses are increasingly making their payment transactions digitally, whether by mobile phone, by card or online.
El Gobierno de la India se une a la Alianza Better Than Cash de las Naciones Unidas para compartir los éxitos del programa de inclusión financiera más grande del mundo…
G20 EMPOWER summit ignites the vital role of digital finance in achieving gender equality
by Tidar Wald, Government and Corporate Relations Specialist at Better Than Cash Alliance…
On 19 August 2015, the Reserve Bank of India approved licenses for eleven institutions to set up payment banks. The purpose was to have these banks further financial inclusion by providing s…
Joint post by Camilo Tellez-Merchan of Better than Cash Alliance and Vivek Belgavi of PwC India
India’s Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) joins the UN-based Better Than Cash Alliance
Small merchants exert a big influence on the global economy.
10 recommendations from civil society to unlock the impact of fintech in merchant digitization and further India’s progress on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
For the first time, new evidence from 25 countries shows how governments and companies can move away from cash, as McKinsey Global Institute reveals a potential $3.7 trillion GDP boost…
Reposted from the original Gates Foundation blog on Impatient Optimists. Until recently, achieving financial inclusion for the world’s unbanked poor was a pressing goal with perplexing obstacles.
As world leaders met at the U.N. General Assembly in New York last week, many discussions focused on how to ignite greater progress toward the SDGs.