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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Government of India joins the United Nations’ Better Than Cash Alliance to share success stories from the world’s largest financial inclusion programme…
Crossposted from the original post that appeared in The Economist Intelligence Unit…
This is the second 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.
This CGAP research paper describes the key challenges Davivienda, a Colombian bank faced through the journey to delivery G2P payments over mobile: how the service delivery model had to be ad…
Bangladesh commits to further national financial inclusion by accelerating the transition to digital payments…
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…
Government aims for economic growth and women’s empowerment through digital payments initiative…
700 million new accounts since 2011: The World Bank’s 2014 Global Findex findings
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.
Two case studies from the Better Than Cash Alliance present innovations from Colombia’s digital payments ecosystem
The Government of Papua New Guinea joined the Better Than Cash Alliance and committed to digitizing all government payments.
The Mexican government is saving an estimated US$ 1.27 billion per year, or 3.3 percent of its total expenditure, on wages, pensions and social transfers. How? By digitizing and centralizing…
Since digital payments form the foundation for digital financial services, an approach to managing and regulating their risk is the first step. Significant literature exists that outlines th…
Building an inclusive financial ecosystem is critical to accelerating the shift away from cash in Colombia and Latin America…
According to the Federal Reserve’s recent paper, [“Strategies for Improving the U.S. Payment System”](https://fedpaymentsimprovement.org/wp-content/uploads/strategies-improving-us-payment-sy…
On Tuesday, January 27th, the Better Than Cash Alliance along with the Departamento para la Proseridad and MINHACIENDA hosted an event in Bogota
This diagnostic measures the current state of the transition to electronic payments by estimating volumes and values of payments made in Colombia, as well as assessing the likelihood of further movement by looking at payment use cases associated with each key shift.
Better Than Cash Alliance welcomes The Coca-Cola Company as its member.
Guest post by Alicia Rendon Contro, Grupo Bimbo