Digital id

Newsflash: How can digital finance lead to a $3.7 trillion GDP boost by 2025?

New reports by McKinsey Global Institute and the Better Than Cash Alliance

Digital payments as transformative as new vaccines?

News from BTCA financial inclusion UN General Assembly week event

Share Your Thoughts: What Are “Responsible” Digital Payments?

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. 

Grupo Bimbo joins the Better Than Cash Alliance to help small businesses in Mexico boost profits

Through Red Qiubo, Grupo Bimbo provides small businesses with the necessary technology to accept digital payments in their operations.

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…

Alcanzando Escala: El Trayecto de BIM Hacia la Inclusión Financiera Digital en Peru

Entrevista a Felipe Vásquez de Velasco, Gerente General de Pagos Digitales Peruanos (PDP)

Why cash is a problem for businesses around the globe

This blog was originally published on The Practitioner Hub for Inclusive Business…

In Kenya, better yields and inclusive agriculture start from your mobile wallet

One of the most important tools on Everline Wakhungu’s farm is her mobile phone….

WSBI contributes its expertise to the Better Than Cash Alliance in shifting cash to electronic payments

In joining the Better Than Cash Alliance, the World Savings and Retail Banking Institute will work to increase the number of electronic transactions undertaken throughout its global membersh…

In China, UN Special Advocate Queen Máxima Sees Great Potential for Digital Financial Inclusion

At the invitation of the government of China, Her Majesty Queen Máxima of the Netherlands visited the country from 24 to 28 November in her capacity as the UN Secretary-General’s Special Adv…

Solutions for the Unbanked

MIT Technology Review Editor-in-Chief Gideon Lichfield talks with Wole Coaxum, MoCaFi founder and chief executive officer, Shamina Singh, Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth president; and Tidhar Wald, Better Than Cash Alliance head of government relations and public policy, at the Bloomberg Sooner Than You Think technology summit in Brooklyn.

Going Cashless: An Opportunity to Accelerate Progress on the 2030 SDGs

Harvard Center for International Development (CID) hosts Better Than Cash Alliance on the CID Speaker Series Podcast. …

Factories paying workers digitally are five times more likely to provide good social and labor practices

New data gathered from the Higg Index from 3,000 factories in 58 countries

Cash Defenders are Wrong: Digital Finance Truly is ‘Pro-Poor’

This blog post was originally published in Next Billion…

Uruguay avanza firmemente hacia la universalización del acceso a servicios financieros

El Gobierno se suma a la alianza que, con base en las Naciones Unidas, reúne a gobiernos, empresas y organizaciones internacionales dedicadas a acelerar la digitalización de pagos…

Uruguay makes great strides toward the universalization of access to financial services

The government joins the United Nations-based alliance of governments, companies and international organizations that works to accelerate the move toward digitization of payments…

Ethiopia Maps Out Digital Payment Strategy

It’s not just about fresh capital for Africa: it is about deployment

BSP Holds Digital Payments Leaders Summit as the Country Moves Closer to a Cash-lite Economy

Lancement de la plateforme ‘’Sunu CMU’’