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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500 million Indian smartphone users in next 5 years: a huge market for digital payments
A new animation and working paper, developed by the Alliance, seek to better explain inclusive digital payment ecosystems.
This guidance note examines key aspects of central bank digital currency (CBDC) design and implementation, and implications for financial systems worldwide.
700 million new accounts since 2011: The World Bank’s 2014 Global Findex findings
Digital payments can promote broader development goals of the G20 countries, according to a new report by the World Bank Development Research Group.
At the Better Than Cash Alliance Secretariat we are starting to think what responsible digital payments mean for our members and stakeholders and want to ask your opinion.
News from BTCA financial inclusion UN General Assembly week event
Banks are closing MTO accounts as risks increase amid a shifting regulatory environment.
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.
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?
Reposted from the original Gates Foundation blog on Impatient Optimists. Until recently, achieving financial inclusion for the world’s unbanked poor was a pressing goal with perplexing obstacles.
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Building an inclusive financial ecosystem is critical to accelerating the shift away from cash in Colombia and Latin America…
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 Z…
This is the fourth in a series of articles written by Maura Hart on the achievements of several Better Than Cash Alliance members. These highlights capture the innovative work by governments, businesses and development organizations to fulfill their commitment to transition from cash to digital payments.
On April 15-16, 2014 the Better Than Cash Alliance presented at the First High Level Meeting for Effective Development Cooperation in Mexico City, Mexico.
Una de las economías más grandes de América Latina mantiene el ritmo de crecimiento al unirse a la Alianza Better Than Cash de las Naciones Unidas para fomentar una economía de inclusión financiera
World Economic Forum recognises electronic payments as a driver for financial inclusion
Así como el Instituto Global McKinsey (MGI) revela que las finanzas digitales tendrían un impacto de US$ 3.7 trillones en el aumento del PBI en las economías emergentes, el nuevo reporte des…