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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As we approach International Women’s Day on March 8th, Women’s World Banking reflects on a learning exchange with three African banks committed to serving low-income women….
The organization joins a UN-hosted alliance of governments, companies and international organizations to accelerate the move towards digitization of payments
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
The paper estabishes that mobile applications are well positioned in Bangladesh’s m-commerce market and are capable of driving sales of high-end mobile phones while providing better services to the users.
Monetary policy implications of CBDCs in diverse banking systems.
This guidance note examines key aspects of central bank digital currency (CBDC) design and implementation, and implications for financial systems worldwide.
The World Bank expects people to send USD$581 billion in remittances in 2014, through a network of banks and money transfer operators.
Ms. Maha Bahou is the Executive Manager for Payment Systems & Domestic Banking Operations and Financial Inclusion Department at the Central Bank of Jordan (CBJ)….
Guest post by Allegra Palmer, Women’s World Banking…
Banks are closing MTO accounts as risks increase amid a shifting regulatory environment.
The Central Bank of Jordan commits to adopting the UN Principles for Responsible Digital Payments
WASHINGTON, April 15, 2015 —Between 2011 and 2014, 700 million people became account holders at banks, other financial institutions, or mobile money service providers, and the number of “unb…
700 million new accounts since 2011: The World Bank’s 2014 Global Findex findings
Digital payments can promote broader development goals of the G20 countries, according to a new report by the World Bank Development Research Group.
Through an interpretive case study of the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) in Pakistan, the paper investigates how the adoption of mobile phones enabled and constrained poor women for receiving G2P payments and its impact on poor households.
The aim of the paper is to bridge the theoretical and methodological gap to evaluate how the social construction of m-banking enables and constrains poor women to access G2P payments in Pakistan.
Through an extensive literature review, the paper provides evidence about role of mobile banking as well as branchless banking is significant for women entrepreneur’s empowerment, especially for financially including them.
Through an interpretive case study of the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) in Pakistan, this paper critically examines mobile banking usage by women beneficiaries and technology’s effects on the institutional properties of their households.
This is the first in a series of articles on the achievements of several Better Than Cash Alliance members…
One Million Low-Income People to Reap Benefits of Digital Money