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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A new Better Than Cash Alliance and World Bank paper outlines factors for the financial exclusion of the elderly and explores how digital financial technology can help governments better prepare for global aging challenges.
In a new compendium, we share some really exciting evidence on this from around the world.
Good news ahead of the World Humanitarian Summit
The Alliance contributed to the strategy, design and launch of Peru’s new mobile payment system, Bim, which plans to bring digital payments to five million Peruvians over the next five years.
A new report by the World Bank, the Better Than Cash Alliance, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Women’s World Banking provides insights on how digital financial services can help close the gender gap.
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.
700 million new accounts since 2011: The World Bank’s 2014 Global Findex findings
Digital payments can promote broader development goals of the G20 countries, according to a new report by the World Bank Development Research Group.
Women need confidential and easily accessible financial services as well as control over their finances, and electronic payments bring these features to financial products.
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