Mexico

Innovations for a cashless world

The report illuminates trends shaping the future of commerce and provides insights from Visa’s third annual Future of Payments study based on 9,200 online surveys across 16 countries.

Our Year in Numbers

A round-up of some of our biggest successes in 2016

Limits to Cashless Payments and the Persistence of Cash. Hypotheses About Mexico

Although cashless payment instruments have been available in Mexico for some time, their rate of adoption was not remarkably fast, until the last 15 years. This chapter seeks to document this phenomenon and discuss some hypotheses on why the adoption rate is still low.

New United Nations Study Shines Spotlight on Peru’s Progress on Digital Finance

As McKinsey Global Institute reveals a potential $3.7 trillion GDP boost in emerging economies, the report outlines how Peru can continue to advance its digital finance agenda …

Todo lo bonito de las finanzas digitales

New United Nations Study Maps Top 10 Ways Governments and Companies Can Create Digital Economies

For the first time, new evidence from 25 countries shows how governments and companies can move away from cash, as McKinsey Global Institute reveals a potential $3.7 trillion GDP boost…

Our 5 favorite recent digital payments stories

500 million Indian smartphone users in next 5 years: a huge market for digital payments

Mexico joins the Better Than Cash Alliance

Mexico’s route to financial inclusion begins with commitment to reduce use of cash

Mexico’s route to financial inclusion begins with commitment to reduce the use of cash

One of the largest economies in Latin America keeps growth momentum going by joining the United Nations’ Better Than Cash Alliance to foster a financially inclusive economy…

El camino de México hacia la inclusión financiera empieza con el compromiso de reducir el uso del efectivo

Una de las economías más grandes de América Latina mantiene el ritmo de crecimiento al unirse a la Alianza Better Than Cash de las Naciones Unidas para fomentar una economía de inclusión fi…

Inter-American Development Bank becomes first regional development bank to join partnership to advance digital payments

The organization joins a UN-hosted alliance of governments, companies and international organizations to accelerate the move towards digitization of payments…

Pakistan Plans to Bring Millions More Citizens into the Economy by Digitizing Payments

Government of Pakistan joins the United Nations’ Better Than Cash Alliance to create inclusive economic growth and a more efficient market structure…

World Bank finds electronic payments a key driver of financial inclusion

This guide is the result of discussions and engagements with hundreds of stakeholders in over 25 countries to rethink and re-engineer the retail payments and includes specific insights from Mexico, Peru, and Australia.

The Level One Project Guide-Designing a New System for Financial Inclusion

Developed over 18 months as part of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Financial Services for the Poor(FSP) initiative, this guide is the result of discussions and engagements with hundre…

Cashing out: Ruth Goodwin Groen in The Economist Intelligence Unit

Crossposted from the original post that appeared in The Economist Intelligence Unit…

Grupo Bimbo joins the Better Than Cash Alliance to help small businesses in Mexico boost profits

Through Red Qiubo, Grupo Bimbo provides small businesses with the necessary technology to accept digital payments in their operations.

Closing the gender gap in mobile phone access and use

Guest post by Shireen Santosham, GSMA Connected Women…

Grupo Bimbo, world’s largest baking company, joins the Better Than Cash Alliance

In becoming a Better than Cash Alliance member, Grupo Bimbo, the world’s largest baking company, announced that it will strengthen its commitment to digitize traditional small shops in Mexico.

Toward a cash-free world with the Global Findex

Development Research Group When the Better Than Cash Alliance (BTCA) was formed almost three years ago, about half of the world’s adult population had some type of bank account. Last week th…

A means to an end: The post-2015 future of financial inclusion

Financial inclusion is a means to an end – or many ends – rather than an end in itself….