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Responsible Finance Forum Website

Since 2009, the Responsible Finance Forum (RFF) has been an annual milestone that brings together the private sector, governments, practitioners, policymakers, academia, and consumers to share emerging best practices, solutions and initiatives to scale up financial inclusion globally.
© Grameen Foundation
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Beneficiary Perceptions and Attitudes in Fiji: Facilitating Migration from Paper-based to Electronic Benefit Distribution

This study exams the real and perceived constraints social welfare beneficiaries and low income households face in using formal banking services. The study was done to inform the government…
© ©Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation/Frederic Courbet
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Kenya Case Studies in e-Payments

This document describes four case studies on the use of mobile money in Kenya, covering use by a government ministry (The Ministry of Lands), an NGO implementing partner of USAID (PACT), a g…
© ©Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation/Frederic Courbet
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Banking with mobile phones in Haiti: A report on a T-cash pilot program

This report describes the experience of Catholic Relief Services Haiti in employing a new mobile phone–based banking service, T-Cash. This service was adopted on a pilot basis to improve CRS…
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Plugging into Mobile Money Platforms: Early Experiences of NGOs in the Field

This focus note reviews early lessons for NGOs from the field. It explores three central questions: Does initial evidence support the notion that mobile money is a cheaper, faster, and more …
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New Technologies in Cash Transfer Programming and Humanitarian Assistance

The research examines the constraints to the uptake of these technologies in humanitarian programming, and has identified barriers to wider adoption of new technology that can be broadly gr…
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Empowering People One Transaction at a Time

Empowering People One Transaction at a Time: Leading Corporations, Foundations and Development Organizations Form “Better Than Cash Alliance” to Accelerate Global Shift to Electronic Payments
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Digital initiative aimed at helping world’s poor

Digital initiative aimed at helping world’s poor…
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Is Cash the Enemy of the Poor?

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.
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Visa Joins Global Leaders In New Partnership

Visa Joins Global Leaders In New Partnership To Promote Electronic Payments And Improve Lives

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Leading Corporations, Foundations and Development Organizations Form ‘Better Than Cash Alliance’

Leading Corporations, Foundations and Development Organizations Form ‘Better Than Cash Alliance’…
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Initiative Launched to Accelerate Global Shift to Electronic Payments for the Poor

Initiative Launched to Accelerate Global Shift to Electronic Payments for the Poor…
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What’s Better than Cash?

“We are excited to be joining our partners in announcing the Better than Cash Alliance today. Committed to moving the global community onto electronic payments in place of physical cash, the…
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The Better Than Cash Alliance Is Out to Create a “Cash Lite” World

The Better Than Cash Alliance Is Out to Create a “Cash Lite” World…
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Aquino Admin Says ‘Digitisation’ a Priority Goal

Aquino Admin Says ‘Digitisation’ a Priority Goal…
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Ruth Goodwin-Groen Named as Managing Director

Alliance Accelerates Work to Transition from Cash to Electronic Payments Worldwide…
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Citi Helps Launch Better Than Cash Alliance, Accelerating Transition to E-payments

Citi helped to launch the Better Than Cash Alliance, a coalition of public, private and NGO partners.
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Better Than Cash Launch Event

2012 the Better Than Cash Alliance was launched at an event at the Ford Foundation in New York….
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Better Than Cash Alliance Perspectives: The Development Community

Around the world, 2.5 billion people lack access to formal financial services….
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Better Than Cash Alliance Names Ruth Goodwin-Groen as Managing Director

Alliance Accelerates Work to Transition from Cash to Electronic Payments Worldwide…