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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Joint post by Camilo Tellez-Merchan of Better than Cash Alliance and Vivek Belgavi of PwC India
Sierra Leone’s experience shows the critical importance of preparing early for digital payments before crises hit.
Media release by the Government of Senegal, the Better Than Cash Alliance and MM4P…
The purpose of this working paper is to set out the key components and stakeholders in a digital payments ecosystem (DPE).
This blog post was originally published in the Huffington Post
Government, private sector, mobile operators and development organizations convene to establish a plan for the future…
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…
Lessons from Bangladesh, Jordan, and Senegal
By Jeffrey Bower, Digital Finance Specialist, Better Than Cash Alliance …
This study examines the three shifts to electronic payments and aggregates the findings of a range of studies about the benefits of electronic payment adoption.
Guest post by Allegra Palmer, Women’s World Banking…
In looking at ways to bring financial services to the more than two billion people outside formal financial systems, often the focus has been on piecemeal efforts to improve specific element…
The Mexican government is saving an estimated US$ 1.27 billion per year, or 3.3 percent of its total expenditure, on wages, pensions and social transfers. How? By digitizing and centralizing…
Prioritizing women, deepening digital infrastructure, designing for users, and building trust drive usage of digital financial services
New partnership will result in promoting digital payments as an important tool to increase security, financial inclusion and economic opportunities in the workplace.
The ability to make and receive payments electronically has emerged, in recent years, as a technology hero during natural disasters and health pandemics. At a time when more people than ever…
The “Digitizing Government Payments Amid COVID-19" series
Kenya is moving towards emerging market status and the government’s focused strategy of creating an electronic payments economy is contributing to its growth. During a reception hosted by th…
There is an urgent need and powerful opportunity to further boost the outreach, efficiency, and efficacy of digital humanitarian payments through enhanced coordination between UN agencies.
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.