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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G20 finance ministers call for open and inclusive digital payments infrastructures
Around 40 companies and organizations share insights and lessons on how digitizing supply chain payments has a profound impact on global businesses, economies, and individuals.
Full financial inclusion is possible through digital payments
Gap Inc. joins the Better Than Cash Alliance with a bold digitization goal
A roundup of our latest reports and case studies
In a first study of its kind, data from nearly 3,000 factories across 58 countries, reveals that paying workers digitally correlates positively with better working conditions.
In this 4-part blog series, we examine key aspects of the transportation sector: tolling, urban transit, and ride-sharing with a focus on emerging economies.
In a new report, the Better Than Cash Alliance shows how improved digitization and harmonization can help UN agencies and partners make an even greater impact.
This International Women’s Day, Marks & Spencer (M&S) is joining our Alliance to help advance the Sustainable Development Goals.
Read the six-blog series that aims to foster a better understanding of the technology.
A new Better Than Cash Alliance and World Bank paper outlines factors for the financial exclusion of the elderly and explores how digital financial technology can help governments better prepare for global aging challenges.
In this edition of the newsletter, we applaud the leadership of Alliance members in the Philippines, Ghana and India who are ensuring that women can gain economic independence through digitization.
The devastating social and economic impacts of COVID-19 have heightened the need for proven solutions to keep the Sustainable Development Goals within reach
The Better Than Cash Alliance continues to achieve momentum in raising awareness about the benefits of digitizing cash payments to people.
Grameen Foundation became the newest member of the Better Than Cash Alliance by committing to continue transitioning to electronic payments through its mobile financial services and mobile agriculture efforts
August 2013 newsletter, Debit cards provide flexibility to displaced families in Mali, Giving Voice to Indonesian Cocoa Farmers on e-Services, Mobile Money Surveys
News from BTCA financial inclusion UN General Assembly week event
Exciting study results on the Mexican government’s shift to e-payments
Are you shifting from cash to electronic payments - or thinking about doing so?
Women need confidential and easily accessible financial services as well as control over their finances, and electronic payments bring these features to financial products.