Gap Inc. Sets New Goal For Apparel Suppliers To Pay Garment Workers Digitally By 2020

Joins UN-based Better than Cash Alliance to Promote Financial Inclusion and Greater Supply Chain Transparency and Efficiency

Handbook of blockchain, digital finance, and inclusion: cryptocurrency, fintech, insurtech, regulation, Chinatech, mobile security, and distributed ledger

The handbook emphasizes the financial opportunities made possible by digital banking, such as financial inclusion and impact investing and summaries standard models of various new technologies.

Growth of mobile financial services key learnings from literature, industry analysis and cases

This paper includes an extensive literature review on Mobile financial Services (MFS)and provides an overview of existing MFS landscape.

The Role of Digital Payments in Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security

Finance Ministers of the economies of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) endorsed the new Better Than Cash Alliance report on the role of digital payments in sustainable agriculture on 21st October, in Viet Nam.

Digitizing retail payments: Building a successful loyalty model

On creating loyalty programs for customers.

Decoding digital impact: A $45 billion opportunity in FMCG

The influence of digital in FMCG is often understated—India is severely lagging behind in digital spends despite a massive online population

Merchant payments: VAS playbook

Examples of value-added services that can help drive adoption.

Digitizing Merchant Payments: What Will It Take?

This presentation is from 2017 and is more based on examples in Africa, but it clearly shows the importance of additional services which are needed to create value proposition for small retailers.

Mobile power payments and smart meters plug in Tanzanian homes

Building Electronic Payment Acceptance at the Base of the Pyramid to Advance Financial Inclusion

Another good summary of opportunities and barriers for adoption of digital payments by small retailers.

China Breakthroughs: Pay it forward on cashless society

China cashing out as mobile payment soars (The Business Times)

China cashing out as mobile payment soars (AFP)

Accelerating Financial Inclusion in South-East Asia with Digital Finance

In this paper, they focus specifically on areas where digital financial services have significant potential to accelerate financial inclusion through their impact on existing business models. They also provide recommendations for governments and regulatory authorities on how to encourage the development of digital financial services to increase inclusion.

Digitization Can Improve Financial Inclusion for Smallholder Farmers

Digital payments take farmers to land of opportunity

UN: Digitisation of Kenyan farmer payments helps tackle poverty

How Digitizing Agricultural Input Payments in Rural Kenya is Tackling Poverty: The Case of One Acre Fund

How Digitizing Agricultural Input Payments in Rural Kenya is Tackling Poverty.

Alipay, WeChat Near $3 Trillion

Digitizing Value Chain Finance for Smallholder Farmers

This brief examines three key use cases for digital financial services in agricultural value chains.