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Responsible Digital Payments: Reducing the risks that come with new opportunities

It’s all at our fingertips. The possibility to make a payment. The delight of receiving one. 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.

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Ugandan farmers – majority women - devise new mobile solution

Farmers are adapting mobile technology to meet market needs and drive progress on their own terms rather than waiting for telecommunications companies to deliver solutions
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An infrastructure approach to improving Financial Inclusion

The Better Than Cash Alliance is introducing an occasional series on innovations that have the potential to reduce costs in digital payments. The first in this series is an article by Ryan Zagone and Danny Aranda from Ripple Labs, a technology company that develops real-time settlement solutions for financial institutions.
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The Coca-Cola Company joins Better Than Cash Alliance to give more people access to electronic payments

Better Than Cash Alliance welcomes The Coca-Cola Company as its member
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Digitization Helps Small Merchants Keep Jobs and Profits in Mexico

Guest post by Alicia Rendon Contro, Grupo Bimbo
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What Apple Pay Adds to the Electronic Payments Landscape

Guest post by Marcos Bader
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Seeing the Benefits of Electronic Aid Delivery Up Close in Rwanda

Earlier this year, we shared the story of the World Food Programme (WFP) introducing cash transfers on mobile phones at the Gihembe refugee camp in northern Rwanda.

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Is Cash the Enemy of Financial Inclusion?

The Better Than Cash Alliance, hosted by UNCDF, gathered with colleagues at the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) Council of Governors Annual Meeting last month in Urubamba, Peru. The event brought together over 30 international organizations dedicated to expanding global financial inclusion.
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Debit cards provide flexibility to displaced families in Mali

Eighteen-year-old Djélika Haïdara was pregnant when she fled her home in northern Mali to escape the violent aftermath of a military coup. She and her extended family were among more than 227,000 people displaced within Mali. Djélika and her baby now live in Bamako, the nation’s capital, in a rented apartment with 20 other family members.
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Aquino Admin Says ‘Digitisation’ a Priority Goal

Aquino Admin Says ‘Digitisation’ a Priority Goal