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One year on: Alliance members reaching financial equality for women

This International Women’s day, we reflect on members’ progress towards the vital goal of reaching financial equality for women.
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2021 highlights: Launching and scaling responsible digital payments

Here, we share highlights of our collaboration with members despite the continuing serious challenges of COVID-19.
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Celebrating Women’s Day!

This International Women’s Day, Marks & Spencer (M&S) is joining our Alliance to help advance the Sustainable Development Goals.
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How UN organizations can boost their impact

In a new report, the Better Than Cash Alliance shows how improved digitization and harmonization can help UN agencies and partners make an even greater impact.
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Why are global brands digitizing payments?

Around 40 companies and organizations share insights and lessons on how digitizing supply chain payments has a profound impact on global businesses, economies, and individuals.
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Unilever joins the Better Than Cash Alliance

Leading consumer goods company and sustainability champion Unilever has committed to transition away from cash throughout its value chain.
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Digital Payments and Women

International Women’s Day Edition
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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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Uruguay makes huge strides towards universal access to financial services

Uruguay has taken a further step towards its goal to provide access to financial services to all with its announcement that it has joined the Alliance.

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Launched! World’s first interoperable shared mobile payments platform

The Alliance contributed to the launch of Peru’s new mobile payment system, Bim, which plans to bring digital payments to 5 million Peruvians over 5 years.
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The Government of India joins the 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.
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Grupo Bimbo, world’s largest baking company, joins the Better Than Cash Alliance

Grupo Bimbo, the world’s largest baking company, announced that it will strengthen its commitment to digitize traditional small shops in Mexico.

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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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The Coca-Cola Company joins Better Than Cash Alliance

The Coca-Cola Company and IFAD join the Alliance as members, Senegal shifts to electronic payments to promote economic growth and fight poverty.
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Government of Rwanda Joins the Better Than Cash Alliance

Rwanda aims for 80% financial inclusion by joining the Better Than Cash Alliance.
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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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Mexico saves a billion dollars annually by going digital

This case study is the first of a series of Better Than Cash Alliance case studies examining the how and why of shifting to electronic payments.

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Register for the Better Than Cash Webinar on December 3rd

Exciting study results on the Mexican government’s shift to e-payments
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Share Your Thoughts: What Are “Responsible” Digital Payments?

At the Better Than Cash Alliance Secretariat we are starting to think what responsible digital payments mean for our members and stakeholders and want to ask your opinion. 
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