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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This ILO brief gives an overview of the different considerations to maximize the potential of digital wage payments.
A review of the main fintech payment models and a debate on the operational and financial risks as well as challenges they face.
Robust digital infrastructure, including internet connectivity and identification, encourages digital financial transactions.
This policy note investigates how gender equality and climate change intersect and offers recommendations for development practitioners, policymakers, and businesses.
This report looks at various faster payment systems (FPS) in the world and analyze the speeds at which payments are processed and settled.
While the digitalization of payments is a global trend, payment habits still differ across countries. Interoperability of payment systems within and between countries is key to ensuring that payments can be made seamlessly.
A resource on how to design a digital currency that expands financial inclusion and operates in the public interest rather than one that exacerbates or even creates a new digital divide for currency.
This publication disseminates initiatives in the financial sector to adapt to aging to encourage other financial entities to develop solutions that make it possible to overcome the “financial non-exclusion” of the elderly.
Insights into the pandemic’s impact on the fintech industry: market performance, financial and operational indicators, financial inclusion, and government support.
A toolkit for policymakers and regulators to formulate, design, and implement gender-transformative policies for financial products and services.
This special report provides high-level policy recommendations to advance financial inclusion for forcibly displaced women.
This report analyzes the role of regulators in promoting instant payments and identifies instances of payment instrument substitution.
An article by McKinsey that explores which digital payments models are best placed to gain momentum in emerging markets and what innovations may lie on the horizon.
Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The gender snapshot 2022” presents the latest evidence on gender equality across all 17 Goals.
Interlinking arrangements’ benefits, challenges and risks.
This IFC and We-Fi learning brief introduces how gender equality can be advanced within the distribution activities of the FMCG sector.
The Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative (We-Fi) explores improvements in women entrepreneur’s financial and economic opportunities in developing countries.
World Bank’s Global Findex is a definitive source on access to financial services. 2021 findings show the account ownership gender gap has narrowed globally.
This paper explores factors that have driven the adoption of digital payments in India by beneficiaries of PMGKY, the large-scale COVID-19 relief program.
The World Economic Forum and IDB Lab explore how digital payments in Latin America & the Caribbean can continue to evolve in an open, inclusive and safe manner.