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Modelo Perú: A Unique Approach to Financial Inclusion

By Jeffrey Bower, Digital Finance Specialist, Better Than Cash Alliance …

Can India Post rise up to the digital payments and financial inclusion challenge?

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…

Moldova pledges to digitize payments for all public services, joins Better Than Cash Alliance

The Republic of Moldova has joined the UN-housed Better Than Cash Alliance to make digital payments for all public services a reality by 2020. …

Launching a new toolkit: Digitising payments for businesses, governments and NGOs

The toolkit provides a comprehensive view of scale and nature of Mobile money opportunities; strategic considerations around interoperability and enabling third parties; further providing some insights and best practices around the same.

Going the distance: How harnessing digital payments can help deliver on the SDGs

How advancing women’s equality can add $12 trillion to global growth

The McKinsey Global Institute has mapped 15 gender-equality indicators for 95 countries and finds that 40 of them have high or extremely high levels of gender inequality on at least half of the indicators.

Watch: Inspirational speeches at UN Global Goals Summit

The President of Tanzania, H.E. Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, as well as Ministers and other high level figures from Peru, Belgium, Bangladesh, Colombia, the Philippines, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and S…

Ecosystem Diagnostics Toolkit

Understand the incentives for digitizing payments in your country.

Development Partners Toolkit

Learn about emerging trends in development partner payments and how to make the case for digitizing payments by your organization.

Payments Measurement Toolkit

Use existing data sources and plan new research to estimate payment flows by government, businesses and individuals.

Government Toolkit

Learn about good practices in public sector financial management and how your institution can lead the shift to digital payments.

UN Secretariat set to boost digital payments within UN system

On behalf of the United Nations’ Secretary General Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Ms. Bettina Tucci Bartsiotas, UN Assistant Secretary-General and Controller, announced that the UN Secretariat had just jo…

Going the distance: How harnessing digital payments can help deliver on the SDGs

by Tidar Wald, Government and Corporate Relations Specialist at Better Than Cash Alliance…

Media Briefing - Making cash history

Making cash history: How digital payments can help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals

Heads of State & Governments Event on Digitizing Payments & Inclusive Finance at UN Summit

Governments Leading the Way: Digitizing Payments and Advancing Inclusive Finance to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, Saturday 26 September, 1:00pm - 2:30pm EST, United Nations Head…

Pakistan Plans to Bring Millions More Citizens into the Economy by Digitizing Payments

Government of Pakistan joins the United Nations’ Better Than Cash Alliance to create inclusive economic growth and a more efficient market structure…

The Journey Toward Cash Lite-Addressing Poverty Saving Money and Increasing Transparency by Accelerating the Shift to Electronic Payments

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.