Digital payments

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Managing Liquidity and Cash-Out for Social Payments During COVID-19

Co-hosted by the Better Than Cash Alliance and CGAP, this webinar captured lessons on delivering vital G2P payments in a way that expands choice while managing liquidity and cash-out in innovative ways.
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Role of digital finance in an aging world

A new Better Than Cash Alliance and World Bank paper outlines factors for the financial exclusion of the elderly and explores how digital financial technology can help governments better prepare for global aging challenges.
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Digital payments and Public Financial Management

A new Center for Global Development policy paper, published in collaboration with the Overseas Development Institute and the Better Than Cash Alliance, explores the linkages between digitalization of payments and effective PFM systems.
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Senegal’s Prime Minister launches new payment digitization agenda

The Prime Minister made this announcement at the Council of Ministers last week, where he presented a new study on payment digitization to His Excellency the President of the Republic, Macky Sall.
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Data proves power of digital payments

Full financial inclusion is possible through digital payments
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Ghana Country Diagnostic is out!

Ghana has made significant gains, including almost 100 percent government payments to people and payments within the government now processed digitally.

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Special Edition on Tax

500 million reasons to digitize tax payments
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Newsflash: How can digital finance lead to a $3.7 trillion GDP boost by 2025?

New reports by McKinsey Global Institute and the Better Than Cash Alliance
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Our 5 favorite recent digital payments stories

500 million Indian smartphone users in next 5 years: a huge market for digital payments
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Launched! World’s first interoperable shared mobile payments platform

The Alliance contributed to the strategy, design and launch of Peru’s new mobile payment system, Bim, which plans to bring digital payments to five million Peruvians over the next five years.
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What is an inclusive approach to digital payments ecosystems?

A new animation and working paper, developed by the Alliance, seek to better explain what inclusive digital payment ecosystems are
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Digital Bangladesh Vision 2021: Bangladesh joins the Better Than Cash Alliance

Millions of Bangladeshis, especially women, will benefit from an ambitious commitment by the Government of Bangladesh to expand financial inclusion in line with its Digital Bangladesh Vision 2021.

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World Bank finds electronic payments a key driver of financial inclusion

700 million new accounts since 2011: The World Bank’s 2014 Global Findex findings
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Papua New Guinea commits to digitizing all government payments

The Government of Papua New Guinea joined the Better Than Cash Alliance and committed to digitizing all government payments.
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BTCA Supports a Stronger Digital Financial Ecosystem in Peru

The Alliance is supporting ASBANC to help launch the platform as soon as possible with the endorsement of the National Financial Inclusion Commission.

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World Bank Report: Digital Payments Vital to Economic Growth

Digital payments can promote broader development goals of the G20 countries, according to a new report by the World Bank Development Research Group.

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New Digital Business Model Opportunity for Remittances as Banks Close MTO Accounts?

Banks are closing MTO accounts as risks increase amid a shifting regulatory environment.
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How Digital Finance Can Contribute to the G20 Agenda on Economic Growth

The Better Than Cash Alliance and the Gates Foundation propose digital financial services as a means for this growth to be broad-based and inclusive, especially for to women.
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BTCA Named as Implementing Partner of the G20’s GPFI

May 2014 newsletter, BTCA Named as Implementing Partner of the G20’s GPFI, Mercy Corps Deploys E-Voucher System for Crisis in the DRC, Women Micro-Entrepreneurs in Nigeria Save Using Mobile App, The Year of E-Money in the Philippines Concludes with a 20% Lift in Transactions, VIDEO: Successful E-Payments Programs Require Strong Communication Channels, Mobile Money is Quickly Taking Off in Côte d’Ivoire, Study Shows that G2P Digital Payments Have Impact, Pakistan: Millions of Unbanked Citizens to Gain Access to Financial Services, How to Design Electronic G2P Payments in Lower Income Countries, What Can We Learn From New Mobile Money Regulation in the DRC?

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Technical Assistance Facility Launched

Are you shifting from cash to electronic payments - or thinking about doing so?

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