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Disrupting Development with Digital Technologies
Better Than Cash Alliance’s Managing Director Ruth Goodwin-Groen participated at the [Brookings Blum Roundtable](http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/up-front/posts/2015/08/03-disrupting-developme…
Assessing risk in digital payments (Gates)
Since digital payments form the foundation for digital financial services, an approach to managing and regulating their risk is the first step. Significant literature exists that outlines th…
Federal Reserve strategies for improving the US payment system
According to the Federal Reserve’s recent paper, [“Strategies for Improving the U.S. Payment System”](https://fedpaymentsimprovement.org/wp-content/uploads/strategies-improving-us-payment-sy…
Faster, cheaper and better regional payment integration
[SWIFT Institute researchers found](http://www.swiftinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/SWIFT-Institute-Working-Paper-No-2014-005-Cross-border-LVP-Regional-Integration-Lipis_v4-FINAL.pd…
Tips for mobile money providers to build effective merchant payment networks
To build an active merchant network, mobile money providers often have to invest significant resources in merchant acquisition or partner with specialists. [A new publication by GSMA](http:/…
IMF Fiscal Transparency Code aligns with BTCA goals
What do you think of the IMF’s new Fiscal Transparency Code for governments? Marco Cangiano, …
The Financial Action Task Force cautions on the use of virtual currencies
The Financial Action Task Force [says that virtual currencies are a powerful payment method](http://www.fatf-gafi.org/topics/methodsandtrends/documents/virtual-currency-definitions-aml-cft-r…
The Impact of Electronic Payments on Economic Growth (2013)
A study by Moody’s Analytics that looked at the impact of increased card penetration on the private consumption of 56 countries over five years.
Read the latest [2016 Report]( https://w…
Payment Cards and Economic Growth: The Positive Economic Impact of Digital Currency
Moody’s Economy.com recently completed a study to measure the economic impact of the shift from cash and checks to digital currency in 51 economies worldwide….
The Solidaridad Visa Prepaid Card Brings Relief to Dominican Citizens in Need
Millions of people in the Dominican Republic struggle with poverty and hunger. In the past, distributing food, fuel and medicine was slow, expensive and often didn’t reach the intended recip…
World Bank Presents Outcomes of the Global Payment Systems Survey 2010
The underlying foundation of a country’s financial system – including all institutions, information, technologies, rules and standards that enable financial intermediation – is its “financia…
Visa Streamlines Distribution of Child Support Payments in Nebraska
Distributing benefits, such as child support, unemployment and disability assistance, has been transformed by the use of prepaid cards. Instead of mailing paper checks, 40 states now use Vis…
