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 examines the role NPCI played in transforming the way India manages financial transactions, as well as what lessons can be learned from India’s experience.
Read about India’s transformational journey to scale responsible digital payments
This two-minute video from the United Nations-based Better Than Cash Alliance is about Romita, a widow in the North East of India who opened a bank account to receive a government loan for a power loom.
On 19 August 2015, the Reserve Bank of India approved licenses for eleven institutions to set up payment banks. The purpose was to have these banks further financial inclusion by providing s…
El Gobierno de la India se une a la Alianza Better Than Cash de las Naciones Unidas para compartir los éxitos del programa de inclusión financiera más grande del mundo…
Government of India joins the United Nations’ Better Than Cash Alliance to share success stories from the world’s largest financial inclusion programme…
Joint post by Camilo Tellez-Merchan of Better than Cash Alliance and Vivek Belgavi of PwC India
India’s Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) joins the UN-based Better Than Cash Alliance
New Report “Catalyzing Responsible Digital Payments in India’s North East Region” by UN based Better Than Cash Alliance
The Government of India has joined the UN-based Better Than Cash Alliance in an extension of the Indian Government’s commitment to reduce cash in its economy.
Taking stock of the digital payments ecosystem with a 7-point action plan to expand the merchant acceptance network
Lessons from digitizing the Hindustan Unilever Shakti channel
This blog post was originally published in the Huffington Post
Better Than Cash Alliance organized a peer exchange learning series to highlight the central and state government initiatives and facilitate peer learning to accelerate service delivery and digital financial inclusion.
10 recommendations from civil society to unlock the impact of fintech in merchant digitization and further India’s progress on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
India was already on a path to growth, but the country’s drive toward digitization may put it on track to be the world’s fastest growing economy over the next decade. Buoyed by demographics,…
In India, the inability to prove one’s identity is one of the biggest barriers that prevents the poor from accessing benefits and subsidies. India is a country with 1.3 billion residents in …
The document presents a vision for how India’s digital economy can unlock productivity and value – through transformative infrastructure, applications and ecosystems. It also outlines iconic…