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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Millions of Bangladeshis, especially women, will benefit from an ambitious commitment by the Government of Bangladesh to expand financial inclusion in line with its Digital Bangladesh Vision 2021.
Financial inclusion is a means to an end – or many ends – rather than an end in itself….
Government aims for economic growth and women’s empowerment through digital payments initiative…
PNG’s Ministries of Finance and Treasury endorse Better Than Cash Alliance membership…
700 million new accounts since 2011: The World Bank’s 2014 Global Findex findings
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Re-posted from the “Beyond the Transaction” Mastercard blog …
Reposted from the original Gates Foundation blog on Impatient Optimists. Until recently, achieving financial inclusion for the world’s unbanked poor was a pressing goal with perplexing obsta…
Two case studies from the Better Than Cash Alliance present innovations from Colombia’s digital payments ecosystem
The Government of Papua New Guinea joined the Better Than Cash Alliance and committed to digitizing all government payments.
The Mexican government is saving an estimated US$ 1.27 billion per year, or 3.3 percent of its total expenditure, on wages, pensions and social transfers. How? By digitizing and centralizing…
UPU, the UN’s agency for postal services, has joined the Better Than Cash Alliance….
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…
The Universal Postal Union (UPU), the UN’s agency for postal services, has joined the Better Than Cash Alliance.
by Era Dabla-Norris, Yan Ji, Robert Townsend, and D. Filiz Unsal …
Digitizing the delivery of humanitarian aid has so much appeal. By taking cash out of the equation, electronic transfers (often called e-transfers or e-payments) promise a faster, more secur…