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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The paper identifies opportunities and challenges in using the interface and options available in a smartphone to solutions that are more flexible, more accessible based on literacy levels, and more secure than traditional ‘feature’ phones.
This report outlines how mobile channels can support sanitation services delivery while building new engagement models and emphasizes the need of a collaborative approach to mobile technology integration, grant support for developing and piloting.
The report provides an overview of the MFS progress in Bangladesh and discusses how selection of staff and beneficiaries from USAID agriculture and health projects are using both traditional and mobile financial services.
This editorial highlights the significance of digital money as a transformational innovation and emphasizes that banks and financial institutions need to develop strategies to respond to opportunities and threats of digital money.
This survey examines the evolution of mobile money, its important role in widening financial inclusion, and the impact of regulation on the development of mobile money systems.
The study attempts to assess and report the progress made by the Reserve Bank of India in moving towards the ‘Cashless’ economy during the period 2004-05 to 2014-15.
The paper explores the opportunities to overcome barriers to financial access in Bangladesh through branchless banking and emphasis that financial inclusion and inclusive growth could be advanced through existing work by Bangladesh bank on favorable agent banking policies
Aadhaar, India’s program to provide a unique identity number for every resident, is the largest biometric identification program in the world. Launched in 2008, the program has created biome…
The National Digital Payments Roadmap provides a high-level plan to expand the adoption of responsible digital payments in a way that is agile, inclusive, and helps achieve the SDGs.
Peru, the Dominican Republic, and Costa Rica are demonstrating that digital payments are an essential part of the economic recovery
CSS is thus strongly committed to providing high-quality services to its workers and their families, both formal and informal financial services.
In 2020 Kossam SDE successfully launched payment digitization for more than 850 herders, helping to improve their living and working conditions.
The Report Responsible Practices to Address Seven Major Risks in COVID-19 Digital Financial Transfers identifies seven heightened risks resulting from the speed and scale of COVID-19 digital transfer responses.
Why should retailers shift to digital payments? An average digital payments user of Grab, a ride-hailing service, makes twice as many transactions than those who use cash and is 30% more lik…
This report lays out the principles for a new digital economy for MENA that embraces innovation and entrepreneurship, youth and women economic empowerment, rekindling the role of State, etc.
This report finds and discusses that contrary to a popular narrative of competition between the legacy providers and newcomers in the market, financial institutions view fintechs as great partners for innovation and envisions more such partnerships as institutions learn from successful cases.
This paper traces the history of mobile banking in Pakistan, studies various models of mobile banking and assesses its current state.
The paper provides an extensive literature review of the existing global MFS industrya and discusses key learning and recommendations based on insights from ‘Easypaisa’ in Pakistan.
This review provides an overview of the operations and impacts of mobile money in the developing world and discussing what the future of mobile money in developing economies may look like.
This study analyzes whether mobile payments are still relevant for the fintech industry by comparing three mobile payment projects – Oi Paggo in Brazil, TCASH in Indonesia, and M-PESA in Kenya.