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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There is growing consensus in the humanitarian community that cash (digital or physical) – as opposed to delivery of food and materials – is often the best way to help communities bounce back from crisis.
Better Than Cash Alliance welcomes The Coca-Cola Company as its member.
The Better Than Cash Alliance (BTCA) is supporting the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) work with the authorities in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone to coordinate payments for thousands of treatment centre staff, lab technicians, contacts tracers and burial teams.
Ghana joins Better Than Cash Alliance for greater financial transparency
The Coca-Cola Company and IFAD join the Alliance as members, Senegal shifts to electronic payments to promote economic growth and fight poverty.
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…
For stakeholders engaged in the shift from cash to electronic payments, there is an ever-present appetite for data on progress.
Rwanda to accelerate digital payments by joining the Better Than Cash Alliance
Guest post by Alicia Rendon Contro, Grupo Bimbo
Forum Highlights Global Standards For Responsible Digital Finance…
Gates Foundation and Better Than Cash Alliance urge governments to embrace digital financial services, offers concrete action steps
By Beth Porter, Policy Advisor, Financial Inclusion, UNCDF, Advisor, Better Than Cash Alliance
Guest post by Allegra Palmer, Women’s World Banking…
The World Bank expects people to send USD$581 billion in remittances in 2014, through a network of banks and money transfer operators.
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.
World Economic Forum recognises electronic payments as a driver for financial inclusion
His Excellency Jose L. Cuisia Jr., Ambassador of the Republic of the Philippines to the United States of America, and Mr. Paolo Eugenio Baltao, President, G-Xchange (a subsidiary of Globe Te…
Digital Payments and Financial Inclusion Key to Poverty Alleviation and Economic Growth, say World Leaders…
In looking at ways to bring financial services to the more than two billion people outside formal financial systems, often the focus has been on piecemeal efforts to improve specific element…