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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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.
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.
700 million new accounts since 2011: The World Bank’s 2014 Global Findex findings
The Government of Papua New Guinea joined the Better Than Cash Alliance and committed to digitizing all government payments.
The Universal Postal Union (UPU), the UN’s agency for postal services, has joined the Better Than Cash Alliance.
In their joint statement, US President Barack Obama and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi recognised India’s intent to join the Better Than Cash Alliance.
Better Than Cash Alliance welcomes The Coca-Cola Company as our member, Senegal shifts to electronic payments to promote economic growth and fight poverty, and IFAD joins Better Than Cash Alliance.
The Alliance is supporting ASBANC to help launch the platform as soon as possible with the endorsement of the National Financial Inclusion Commission.
Digital payments can promote broader development goals of the G20 countries, according to a new report by the World Bank Development Research Group.
Banks are closing MTO accounts as risks increase amid a shifting regulatory environment.
The Better Than Cash Alliance and the Gates Foundation propose digital financial services as a means for this growth to be broad-based and inclusive, especially for to women.
May 2014 newsletter, BTCA Named as Implementing Partner of the G20’s GPFI, Mercy Corps Deploys E-Voucher System for Crisis in the DRC, Women Micro-Entrepreneurs in Nigeria Save Using Mobile App, The Year of E-Money in the Philippines Concludes with a 20% Lift in Transactions, VIDEO: Successful E-Payments Programs Require Strong Communication Channels, Mobile Money is Quickly Taking Off in Côte d’Ivoire, Study Shows that G2P Digital Payments Have Impact, Pakistan: Millions of Unbanked Citizens to Gain Access to Financial Services, How to Design Electronic G2P Payments in Lower Income Countries, What Can We Learn From New Mobile Money Regulation in the DRC?
Women need confidential and easily accessible financial services as well as control over their finances, and electronic payments bring these features to financial products.
March 2014 newsletter, What Can Experiences in Haiti, Kenya, the Philippines & Uganda Teach Us About G2P & D2P E-Payments?, Remote communities in Ghana bank on mobiles, Does gender impact access to mobile financial services?
These phones can be used to receive and transfer money through an electronic banking solution called mVISA, provided by the Bank of Kigali.
Are you shifting from cash to electronic payments - or thinking about doing so?
This case study is the first of a series of Better Than Cash Alliance case studies examining the how and why of shifting to electronic payments.
Exciting study results on the Mexican government’s shift to e-payments
News from BTCA financial inclusion UN General Assembly week event
August 2013 newsletter, Debit cards provide flexibility to displaced families in Mali, Giving Voice to Indonesian Cocoa Farmers on e-Services, Mobile Money Surveys