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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Beneficiaries received electronic transfers via mobile savings accounts
In wealthy countries, most people conduct their financial activity in digital form; money and value is stored virtually and transferred instantaneously with a touch of a button.
Payday can be an ordeal for women garment workers in Bangladesh. Often, they must wait in long lines, carry wads of cash through crowded streets, or encounter a mother-in-law demanding money…
The World Bank expects people to send USD$581 billion in remittances in 2014, through a network of banks and money transfer operators.
As part of its commitments to enhance food security, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has introduced mobile phone facilitated cash transfers to feed the 14,500 refugees in Gihem…
Earlier this year, we shared the story of the World Food Programme (WFP) introducing cash transfers on mobile phones at the Gihembe refugee camp in northern Rwanda. …
One Million Low-Income People to Reap Benefits of Digital Money
In 10 years, the Better Than Cash Alliance has spurred a global movement towards the responsible digitization of payments.
The Better Than Cash Alliance recently held a live webinar with key players behind the launch of Peru’s new mobile wallet. “Bim” is the first product of Modelo Perú, which plans to bring dig…
ANTALYA, Turkey - How are phones and cards changing the ways the global poor access and manage their money, and what should governments and financial institutions do to ensure innovative pr…
From Peru to Rwanda to India, people, governments and businesses are increasingly making their payment transactions digitally, whether by mobile phone, by card or online.
Grameen Foundation became the newest member of the Better Than Cash Alliance by committing to continue transitioning to electronic payments through its mobile financial services and mobile agriculture efforts
As part of its growth and anti-poverty policy, the Government of Senegal is carrying out several transport infrastructure projects.
The Better Than Cash Alliance, in support of its member, the Government of Pakistan, and the State Bank of Pakistan, presents Realizing the Promise of Responsible Digital Payments for Merchants in Pakistan. The report provides a series of recommendations aimed at supporting MSMEs and enabling their transition into the digital payments’ ecosystem.
Report by the Better Than Cash Alliance, Women’s World Banking, and the World Bank Group for the G20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion under the Saudi G20 Presidency
This study presents a unique perspective, comparing concrete experiences from large companies to small- and medium-sized businesses.
Kenyan AgTech company, Virtual City, has created a mobile-based tool called Agrimanagr that enables digitization of dairy value chain. Watch the video to learn more.
This blog was originally published on BSR.org…
The Pocket Guide to Responsible Payment Digitization in the Coffee Value Chain will inform stakeholders on opportunities and tools available for payment digitization.
These phones can be used to receive and transfer money through an electronic banking solution called mVISA, provided by the Bank of Kigali.