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Handbook of blockchain, digital finance, and inclusion: cryptocurrency, fintech, insurtech, regulation, Chinatech, mobile security, and distributed ledger

The handbook emphasizes the financial opportunities made possible by digital banking, such as financial inclusion and impact investing and summaries standard models of various new technologies.

Growth of mobile financial services key learnings from literature, industry analysis and cases

This paper includes an extensive literature review on Mobile financial Services (MFS)and provides an overview of existing MFS landscape.

The Role of Digital Payments in Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security

Finance Ministers of the economies of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) endorsed the new Better Than Cash Alliance report on the role of digital payments in sustainable agriculture on 21st October, in Viet Nam.

Digitizing retail payments: Building a successful loyalty model

On creating loyalty programs for customers….

Decoding digital impact: A $45 billion opportunity in FMCG

The influence of digital in FMCG is often understated—India is severely lagging behind in digital spends despite a massive online population. By 2020, approximately $45 billion of the FMCG s…

Unilever joins the Better Than Cash Alliance

Leading consumer goods company and sustainability champion Unilever has committed to transition away from cash throughout its value chain.

Merchant payments: VAS playbook

This playbook discusses the various potential Value Added Services that could increase uptake of mobile retail payments in Tanzania and similar emerging markets.

Digitizing Merchant Payments: What Will It Take?

The presentation provides ideas for digital payments to replace cash as the most used mode of retail merchants worldwide.

Mobile power payments and smart meters plug in Tanzanian homes

Building Electronic Payment Acceptance at the Base of the Pyramid to Advance Financial Inclusion

This report identifies critical barriers to the expansion of electronic payment acceptance and effective ways to address the challenges of building the ecosystem for payment acceptance among SMBs.

China Breakthroughs: Pay it forward on cashless society

China cashing out as mobile payment soars (The Business Times)

China cashing out as mobile payment soars (AFP)

Fight for light: Report on SDG-7

How digital payments can alleviate energy poverty

Call for building inclusive digital payments ecosystems

G20 leaders endorse our guidance document

Accelerating Financial Inclusion in South-East Asia with Digital Finance

Focussing on women, and micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), the paper highlights that digital financial solutions could play a significant part in closing gaps in financial inclusion and povides insights from Indonesia, Philippines, Cambodia, and Myanmar.

Digitization Can Improve Financial Inclusion for Smallholder Farmers

Digital payments take farmers to land of opportunity

One Acre Fund Study

Mobile payments are better than cash

UN: Digitisation of Kenyan farmer payments helps tackle poverty