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 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 Universal Postal Union (UPU), the UN’s agency for postal services, has joined the Better Than Cash Alliance.
700 million new accounts since 2011: The World Bank’s 2014 Global Findex findings
Millions of Bangladeshis, especially women, will benefit from a commitment by the Government of Bangladesh to expand financial inclusion
The Alliance is supporting ASBANC to help launch the platform as soon as possible with the endorsement of the National Financial Inclusion Commission.
Banks are closing MTO accounts as risks increase amid a shifting regulatory environment.
New reports by McKinsey Global Institute and the Better Than Cash Alliance
The discussion focused on the critical elements of Kenya’s successful transition process, the challenges and benefits of the shift.
Ghana has made significant gains, including almost 100 percent government payments to people and payments within the government now processed digitally.
G20 finance ministers call for open and inclusive digital payments infrastructures
New Alliance report “Success Factors in Tax Digitalization” is another powerful demonstration of how digital payments can positively impact millions of lives.
How digital payments can alleviate energy poverty
Here are highlights on how our global partnership ignited progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals through shifting to digital payments.
Improving access to healthcare and decent work, reaching farmers, including merchants, equal opportunities for women and much more, through responsibly digitizing payments.
The wins our Alliance had in transition to digital payments
How will digitization of merchant payments improve women’s financial inclusion and economic resilience?
This year, members and partners, in collaboration with our Secretariat team, moved the responsible payment digitization agenda forward across sectors, from agriculture and trade to health and decent work.
The Better Than Cash Alliance continues to achieve momentum in raising awareness about the benefits of digitizing cash payments to people.
By joining our global partnership, Indonesia is committed to accelerating the transition from cash to digital payments and has encouraged fellow APEC countries to follow suit.
500 million reasons to digitize tax payments