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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ANTALYA, Turkey - How are phones and cards changing the ways the global poor access and manage their money, and what should governments and financial institutions do to ensure innovative pr…
Successful digitization of P2G payments and its widespread adoption by users is achievable - but depends on the alignment of various important factors.
One Acre Fund cut payment losses and collection costs by over 80 percent, boosting farmers’ satisfaction and economic opportunity…
Interview with Felipe Vásquez de Velasco, General Manager of Peruvian Digital Payments (PDP)
Blockchain Series: Blog 4
This blog post was originally published in the Huffington Post…
One Million Low-Income People to Reap Benefits of Digital Money
This blog was originally published on BSR.org…
In joining the Better Than Cash Alliance, the World Savings and Retail Banking Institute will work to increase the number of electronic transactions undertaken throughout its global membersh…
CRS Commits to Increase Electronic Payments to Strengthen Local Economies…
This is the third in a series of articles written by Maura Hart on the achievements of several Better Than Cash Alliance members.
Kenya is moving towards emerging market status and the government’s focused strategy of creating an electronic payments economy is contributing to its growth. During a reception hosted by th…
Guest post by Allegra Palmer, Women’s World Banking…
Kenya has been hailed as one of the developing world’s leaders in electronic payments. So it should come as no surprise that a sparsely populated, dusty village 500 kilometres from Nairobi i…
Scaling digitization of payments for small and micro merchants by convening key stakeholders to co-create solutions.
From Peru to Rwanda to India, people, governments and businesses are increasingly making their payment transactions digitally, whether by mobile phone, by card or online.
Small merchants exert a big influence on the global economy.
This blog post was originally published in the Huffington Post
In looking at ways to bring financial services to the more than two billion people outside formal financial systems, often the focus has been on piecemeal efforts to improve specific element…
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